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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Memphis, TN

March 24, 1994Lee County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 24, 1994, 12:29 PM CST for Lee County, Mississippi. It was in force for 31 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 24, 1994, 12:29 PM CST (18:29 UTC)
Expired: Mar 24, 1994, 1:00 PM CST
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Lee County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 131 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 499 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 606 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 96 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.6

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The text

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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 24, 10:14 AM CST, 2 hours 15 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 24, 7:15 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	DeSoto	45 min
Mar 24, 8:15 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Marshall	30 min
Mar 24, 1:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Clay, Lowndes	44 min
Mar 24, 7:02 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Shelby	43 min
Mar 24, 7:39 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Fayette, Shelby	51 min
Mar 24, 8:57 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Fayette	48 min
Mar 24, 8:59 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Hardeman	46 min
Mar 24, 5:32 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Cross	43 min
Mar 24, 6:18 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Cross	27 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1994 Every 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.