Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 9, 1992, 7:59 PM CST for Lafayette County, Mississippi. It was in force for 31 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 9, 1992, 7:59 PM CST (01:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 1992, 8:30 PM CST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lafayette County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 68 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2047 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -241 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 581 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.6
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, Mar 9, 4:34 PM CST, 3 hours 25 minutes before
TNZALL-100430-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
435 PM CST MON MAR 9 1992
... FREEZING WEATHER TO RETURN ...
ALTHOUGH THE WEATHER TODAY WAS WARM...A COLD FRONT WILL BE ENTERING
WEST TENNESSEE AROUND SUNRISE TUESDAY. THE FRONT WILL SWEEP ACROSS
MUCH OF THE STATE DURING THE DAY ENDING THE RAINS IN WEST AND
MIDDLE TENNESSEE.
BEHIND THE FRONT...ARCTIC AIR WILL INVADE TENNESSEE CAUSING
TEMPERATURES TO FALL DURING THE DAY INTO THE 40S OVER THE WESTERN HALF
OF THE STATE. THE FRONT SHOULD REACH THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU BY
TUESDAY EVENING. SKIES SHOULD REMAIN CLOUDY DURING THE DAY OVER WEST
AND MIDDLE TENNESSEE ON TUESDAY PREVENTING THE SUN FROM PROVIDING MUCH
WARMTH.
ADDITIONALLY...WINDS FROM THE NORTHWEST FOLLOWING THE FRONT WILL BE
STRONG...ABOUT 15 OR 20 MILES AN HOUR.
THE WINDS WILL BE DECREASING TUESDAY NIGHT...AND BY WEDNESDAY MORNING
TEMPERATURES WILL BE FREEZING OR BELOW ACROSS ALL BUT THE EAST
TENNESSEE VALLEY.
WITH THE WARM TEMPERATURES OVER THE PAST WEEK OR SO...MANY TREES AND
PLANTS HAVE BLOOMED. THE COLD TEMPERATURES COULD PROVIDE SOME DAMAGE
TO THE NEW VEGETATION...SO PRECAUTIONS SHOULD BE TAKEN TO MINIMIZE
POTENTIAL DAMAGE.Special weather statement, Mar 9, 6:30 PM CST, 1 hour 29 minutes before
MSZ004-005-007-100130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS 630 PM CST MON MAR 9 1992 .....TORNADO WATCHES NUMBER 64 AND 65 REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CST FOR A LARGE PART OF NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI..... AT 625 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN TUPELO CONTINUED TO SHOW A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI...WESTERN TENNESSEE AND NORTHERN ALABAMA MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN SUNFLOWER AND YALOBUSHA COUNTIES OF WESTERN MISSISSIPPI. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED TO THIS OFFICE DURING THE PAST HOUR...HOWEVER THE POTIENTIAL OF SEVERE WEATHER CONTINUES ACROSS THIS AREA. STAY TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND LOCAL MEDIA FOR LATER UPDATES. NNNN
Special weather statement, Mar 9, 7:21 PM CST, 38 minutes before
MSZ004-005-007-100230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS 721 PM CST MON MAR 9 1992 .....TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 67 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM CST TUESDAY MORNING FOR MOST OF NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI..... AT 717 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN TUPELO SHOWED A LARGE AREA OF RAINSHOWERS WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI...WESTERN TENNESSEE AND NORTHWEST ALABAMA MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED BETWEEN BATESVILLE AND GREENVILLE MISSISSIPPI. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED TO THIS OFFICE DURING THE PAST HOUR...HOWEVER CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR POTENTIAL SEVERE WEATHER TO OxCCURR THIS EVENING OVER NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI. NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 11:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chickasaw, Lee | 36 min |
| Mar 9, 11:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Monroe | 34 min |
| Mar 10, 12:40 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Lee, Monroe | 4 hr |
| Mar 10, 7:51 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Lee, Monroe | 4 hr |
Nearby
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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.