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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Memphis, TN

February 15, 1993Oktibbeha County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 15, 1993, 5:33 PM CST for Oktibbeha County, Mississippi. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 15, 1993, 5:33 PM CST (23:33 UTC)
Expired
Feb 15, 1993, 6:19 PM CST
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Oktibbeha County, MS

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, Feb 15, 12:33 PM CST, 5 hours before
TNZ009-010-012-014-151930-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
1230 PM CST MON FEB 15 1993

...SNOW ADVISORY EXPIRES OVER NORTH MIDDLE AND NORTHWEST
     TENNESSEE...

THE SNOW ADVISORY ISSUED EARLIER THIS MORNING FOR NORTH MIDDLE
AND NORTHWEST TENNESSEE HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. ABOUT ONE
TO THREE INCHES OF SNOW FELL ACROSS NORTH MIDDLE AND NORTHWEST
TENNESSEE THIS MORNING WITH TWO INCHES OF SNOW ON THE THE GROUND
AT NASHVILLE BY NOON.

HOWEVER SNOW IN THIS REGION HAS BEEN MIXING WITH RAIN AND SLEET
AS TEMPERATURES SLOWLY WARM SO LITTLE FURTHER ACCUMULATIONS
ARE EXPECTED. BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON ALL PRECIPITAION OVER WESTERN
AND MIDDLE TENNESSEE WILL BE IN THE FORM OF RAIN.

NEVERTHELESS MANY ROADS WILL BE SLIPPERY THIS AFTERNOON DUE
TO THE EARLIER SNOWFALL...ESPECIALLY OVER BRIDGES AND
OVERPASSES. PERSONS DRIVING SHOULD THEREFORE EXERCISE EXTREME
CAUTION AND TRAVEL AT SPEEDS WELL BELOW NORMAL WHERE ROADS
ARE SLICK.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 15, 5:22 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGChickasaw, Clay57 min
Feb 15, 5:33 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLee, Pontotoc46 min

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.