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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 102, NWS Memphis, TN

July 30, 1992Tippah County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 30, 1992, 1:46 PM CDT for Tippah County, Mississippi. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 30, 1992, 1:46 PM CDT (18:46 UTC)
Expired
Jul 30, 1992, 2:45 PM CDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Tippah County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 257 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, Paducah/Barkley, KY at 12:00Z on 1992-07-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1024 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, Paducah/Barkley, KY at 12:00Z on 1992-07-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 40 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1024 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
550 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
11 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 30, 12:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLauderdale37 min

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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.