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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 106, NWS Memphis, TN

August 10, 1992Alcorn County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 1992, 1:15 PM CDT for Alcorn County, Mississippi. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 10, 1992, 1:15 PM CDT (18:15 UTC)
Expired: Aug 10, 1992, 2:15 PM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Alcorn County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 227 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2796 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 636 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -42 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 10, 12:24 PM CDT, 51 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 10, 12:43 PM CDT, 32 minutes before

TNZ012-013-014-015-101815-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  MEMPHIS TN
1245 PM CDT MON AUG 10 1992

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR HARDEMAN COUNTY HAS EXPIRED
AND IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT...

AT 1245 PM THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER HARDEMAN COUNTY BUT THE STORMS
HAD WEAKENED. THE BOLIVAR POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED THAT HEAVY RAINS
AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING OCCURRED BUT INDICATED NO DAMAGE HAD BEEN
REPORTED.

THE STORM MOVEMENT WAS TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH.

ADDITIONAL STORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER A LARGE AREA OF WEST TENNESSEE
STRETCHING FROM NEAR MARTIN SOUTH INTO THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI.
BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WILL LIKELY OCCUR WITH THESE
STORMS ALONG WITH FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL.
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STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 10, 12:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tippah	66 min
Aug 10, 1:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Prentiss, Tishomingo	55 min
Aug 10, 2:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Itawamba, Lee	67 min
Aug 10, 2:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Monroe	57 min
Aug 10, 3:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lowndes	25 min
Aug 10, 11:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Hardeman	48 min
Aug 10, 6:02 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Dyer, Lake, Lauderdale, Obion	61 min
Aug 10, 6:02 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Shelby, Tipton	61 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1992 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992

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.