Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 9, 1992, 11:24 PM CST for Chickasaw County, Lee County, Mississippi. It was in force for 36 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 9, 1992, 11:24 PM CST (05:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 10, 1992, 12:00 AM CST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Chickasaw County, MS, Lee County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 132 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, 6:30 PM CST, 4 hours 54 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, 4 hours 3 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
Special weather statement, Mar 9, 8:33 PM CST, 2 hours 51 minutes before
MSZ004-005-007-100330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS 833 PM CST MON MAR 9 1992 .....TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 67 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM CST TUESDAY MORNING FOR MOST OF NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI..... AT 827 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN TUPELO SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. THIS LINE EXTENDED FROM NEAR CORNITH SOUTHWEST ACROSS NEW ALBANY TO THE WEST OF PONTOTOC. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. ELSEWHERE...A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS CONTINUED OVER NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI AND WESTERN TENNESSEE. CONDITIONS ACROSS THE REGION REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE WEATHER THIS EVENING SO STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND THE LOCAL MEDIA FOR THE LATEST UPDATES. NNNN
Special weather statement, Mar 9, 9:28 PM CST, 1 hour 56 minutes before
MSZ004-005-100430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS 928 PM CST MON MAR 9 1992 .....TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 67 CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM CST FOR MUCH OF NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI..... AT 925 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS INDICATING WIDELY SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER EXTREME EASTERN LAFAYETTE COUNTY AND OVER EXTREME NORTHWESTERN ITAWAMBA COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE CAPABILITY OF PRODUCING FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. ELSEWHERE A RATHER LARGE AREA OF RAINSHOWER ACTIVITY WAS INDICATED OVER NORTH MISSISSIPPI...SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE AND WESTERN ALABAMA. PEOPLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER APPROACH. NNNN
Special weather statement, Mar 9, 10:27 PM CST, 57 minutes before
MSZ004-005-007-100530- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS 1027 PM CST MON MAR 9 1992 .....TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 67 CINTINUES IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTH MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 1 AM CST TUESDAY MORNING..... AT 1025 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS INDICATING STRONG THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY OVER THE PONTOTOC AND CHICKASAW COUNTY LINES. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO INDICATED OVER NORTHERN SECTIONS OF ITAWAMBA COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF PRODUCING FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN....STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. ELSEWHERE THUNDERSHOWERS AND RAINSHOWERS WERE LOCATED OVER MUCH OF NORTH MISSISSIPPI...NORTHWEST ALABAMA AND SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE. PEOPLE LIVING IN OR NEAR THE WATCH AREA NEED TO REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD THREATENhING WEATHER APPROACH. NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 7:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lafayette | 31 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.