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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Memphis, TN

April 8, 1991Monroe County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Apr 8, 1991, 12:50 PM CDT for Monroe County, Mississippi. It was in force for 40 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 8, 1991, 12:50 PM CDT (17:50 UTC)
Expired
Apr 8, 1991, 1:30 PM CDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Monroe County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 162 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Centreville/Bibb, AL at 12:00Z on 1991-04-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 381 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Centreville/Bibb, AL at 12:00Z on 1991-04-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 181 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
381 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-42 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
649 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
181 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
191 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.0

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.