Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1992, 9:21 AM CDT for Clay County, Mississippi. It was in force for 39 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 3, 1992, 9:21 AM CDT (14:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 1992, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clay County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 0 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -40 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, Jul 3, 3:39 AM CDT, 5 hours 42 minutes before
TNZ012-013-014-015-MSZ001-004-ARZ012-013-014-030945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 338 AM CDT FRI JUL 3 1992 AT 330 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER EASTERN ARKANSAS...ABOUT 60 MILES NORTHEAST OF LITTLE ROCK...NEAR PATTERSON IN WESTERN WOODRUFF COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR...AND SHOULD MOVE ACROSS WESTERN CROSS COUNTY ARKANSAS BETWEEN 4 AND 5 AM CDT. SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS TO 40 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. ELSEWHERE...WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER NORTHEAST ARKANSAS BETWEEN WYNNE AND CARAWAY...AND OVEtR NORTHWEST TENNESSEE BETWEEN HENRY AND TIPTONVILLE...AS WELL AS ALONG THE TENNESSEE RIVER BETWEEN SAVANNAH AND LINDEN. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Jul 3, 5:44 AM CDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before
TNZ012-013-014-015-MSZ001-004-ARZ012-013-014-031200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 540 AM CDT FRI JUL 3 1992 AT 530 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI...JUST NORTHEAST OF COAHOMA. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR...AND SHOULD MOVE ACROSS NORTHERN QUITMAN COUNTY AND INTO PANOLA COUNTY MISSISSIPPI ...NEAR CRENSHAW MISSISSIPPI...BETWEEN 5 AND 6 AM CDT. STRONG GUSTY WINDS ...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. ELSEWHERE...WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER EAST ARKANSAS BETWEEN LITTLE ROCK AND ARKANS.AS CITY...AND OVER WEST TENNESSEE BETWEEN TRENTON AND COLLINWOOD. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 8:46 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lee | 29 min |
| Jul 3, 4:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee | 50 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.