Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1994, 3:23 PM CDT for Pontotoc County, Mississippi. It was in force for 52 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 25, 1994, 3:23 PM CDT (20:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 1994, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pontotoc County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 953 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1600 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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, Jun 25, 2:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
TNZ003-004-091-092-MSZ003-012-252000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 202 PM CDT SAT JUN 25 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ERUPT OVER NORTH MISSISSIPPI AND PARTS OF WEST TENNESSEE... INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS ... SOME PACKING STRONG WIND AND HAIL HAVE DEVELOPED IN AN ARC FROM THE PARIS AREA OF WEST TENNESSEE SOUTHWARD ALONG THE TENNESSEE RIVER AND INTO NORTH AND EAST PARTS OF MISSISSIPPI. MOVING SLOWLY TOWARD THE EAST ... THESE STORMS WILL BRING DEADLY LIGHTNING ... VERY HEAVY RAIN ... AND THE THREAT OF LARGE HAIL AND HIGH WIND AS THEY PASS OVER. BOATERS SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR AS THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH. MOTORISTS SHOULD DRIVE MORE SLOWLY WHEN RAIN OCCURS AND BE PREPARED FOR FLOODED ROADWAYS. SOME OF THE AFTERNOON STORMS ARE QUITE STRONG AND MAY BRING DAMAGING WIND AND LARGE HAIL.. YOU SHOULD MOVE TO A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES AS THUNDERSTORMS MOVE PA<ST. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR WEATHER UPDATES.
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 2:02 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
TNZ003-004-091-092-MSZ003-012-252000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 202 PM CDT SAT JUN 25 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ERUPT OVER NORTH MISSISSIPPI AND PARTS OF WEST TENNESSEE... INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS ... SOME PACKING STRONG WIND AND HAIL HAVE DEVELOPED IN AN ARC FROM THE PARIS AREA OF WEST TENNESSEE SOUTHWARD ALONG THE TENNESSEE RIVER AND INTO NORTH AND EAST PARTS OF MISSISSIPPI. MOVING SLOWLY TOWARD THE EAST ... THESE STORMS WILL BRING DEADLY LIGHTNING ... VERY HEAVY RAIN ... AND THE THREAT OF LARGE HAIL AND HIGH WIND AS THEY PASS OVER. BOATERS SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR AS THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH. MOTORISTS SHOULD DRIVE MORE SLOWLY WHEN RAIN OCCURS AND BE PREPARED FOR FLOODED ROADWAYS. SOME OF THE AFTERNOON STORMS ARE QUITE STRONG AND MAY BRING DAMAGING WIND AND LARGE HAIL.. YOU SHOULD MOVE TO A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES AS THUNDERSTORMS MOVE PAST. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR WEATHER UPDATES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 11:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Clay | 43 min |
| Jun 25, 12:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lowndes | 55 min |
| Jun 25, 1:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lowndes | 28 min |
| Jun 25, 1:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tippah | 62 min |
| Jun 25, 1:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tippah | 59 min |
| Jun 25, 1:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Pontotoc | 62 min |
| Jun 25, 2:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lafayette | 48 min |
| Jun 25, 2:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lowndes | 65 min |
| Jun 25, 2:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tishomingo | 68 min |
| Jun 25, 3:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Alcorn | 67 min |
| Jun 25, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chickasaw | 26 min |
| Jun 25, 4:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tippah | 69 min |
| Jun 25, 4:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Tippah | 29 min |
| Jun 25, 4:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Tippah | 27 min |
| Jun 25, 1:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | McNairy | 28 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994
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.