Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1992, 5:06 PM CDT for Monroe County, Mississippi. It was in force for 99 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 10, 1992, 5:06 PM CDT (22:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1992, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 99 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, 10.1 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 836 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 749 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUP 102206 COR SVRTUP MSC095-102345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED...CORRECTED FOR TIME SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS 506 PM CDT WED JUN 10 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TUPELO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI ...MONROE COUNTY AT 500 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN TUPELO INDICATED TWO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN MONROE COUNTY. ONE WAS LOCATED TWO MILES NORTHEAST OF AMORY WHILE THE OTHER WAS LOCATED THREE MILES NORTH OF ABERDEEN. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. IF YOU EXPERIENCED DAMAGING WINDS OR HAIL, NOTIFY YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY, LOCAL OFFICIAL OR THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. NNNN
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, Jun 10, 11:56 AM CDT, 5 hours 10 minutes before
TNZ012-013-014-015-MSZ001-004-ARZ012-013-014-101900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1155 AM CDT WED JUN 10 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS RUMBLING INTO WEST TENNESSEE... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING THROUGH WEST TENNESSEE EARLY THIS AFTERNOON AS WARM HUMID UNSTABLE AIR CONTINUES COVERING THE REGION. THE STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER AND AROUND THE CITIES OF MEMPHIS...COVINGTON AND DYERSBURG TENN
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 1:46 PM CDT, 3 hours 20 minutes before
MSZ004-005-007-101945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS 146 PM CDT WED JUN 10 1992 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HEADING INTO NORTHCENTRAL MISSISSIPPI... AT 1230 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN TUPELO INDICATE AN AREA OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR HOLLY SPRINGS IN EXTREME NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI TO NEAR HUNTINGDON IN NORTHWEST TENNESSEE. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAIN...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS IN EXCESS OF 50 MILES AN HOUR...AND POSSIBLY LARGE HAIL. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING SLOWLY TO THE EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS...ESPECIALLY MARSHAL...BENTON...AND TIPPAH COUNTIES...SHOULD KEEP A CLOSE WATCH FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. ELSEWHERE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ARE MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. NNNN
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 3:02 PM CDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before
TNZ012-013-014-015-MSZ001-004-ARZ012-013-014-102100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 302 PM CDT WED JUN 10 1992 THUNDERSTORMS WERE STILL ACTIVE AND STRONG AT 300 PM ... AND WERE ALONG A LINE THAT STRETCHED FROM BETWEEN HUNTINGDON AND PARSONS TOWARD THE SOUTH AND WEST TO THE SELMER AREA OF WEST TENNESSEE ... AND ACROSS NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI ... FROM NEAR WALNUT TO JUST SOUTH OF HOLLY SPRINGS. THE THUNDERSTORMS OVER WEST TENNESSEE WERE MOVNG TOWARD THE EAST AT 20 MPH ... THOSE OVER MISSISSIPPI WERE MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOVED OUT OF MOST OF WEST TENNESSEE BY 300 PM... AND THE RAIN HAD ENDED OVER NEARLY ALL OF FAYETTE COUNTY TENNESSEE. BUT A FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL CONTINUE FOR FAYETTE COUNTY UNTIL 345 PM AS WATER CONTINUES TO DRAIN FROM THE TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS THAT OCCURRED EARLIER. MORE THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER NORTHERN ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE WORKING THEIR WAY EAST THIS EVENING AND WILL POSE A THREAT OF RENEWED THUNDERSTORMS FOR EAST ARKANSAS ... WEST TENNESSEE ... AND NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI LATER TONIGHT. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR LATER BULLETINS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 2:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Alcorn, Tippah | 63 min |
| Jun 10, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Union | 44 min |
| Jun 10, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tishomingo | 44 min |
| Jun 10, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Coahoma | 69 min |
| Jun 10, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | DeSoto, Tate | 42 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1992Every 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.