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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Apr 26, 1994, 7:21 PM CDT for Tate County, Mississippi. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 26, 1994, 7:21 PM CDT (00:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 1994, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tate County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 20 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
- 2705 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1210 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 7.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMEM 270025 COR TORMEM MSC137-270115- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING ...... CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 721 PM CDT TUE APR 26 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI ...TATE COUNTY DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO WAS FORMING OVER NORTHERN TATE COUNTY ... JUST SOUTH OF THE DESOTO - TATE COUNTY LINE ... DUE SOUTH OF INGRAMS MILL .. AT 720PM. THIS HAS BEEN AN ESPECIALLY DESTRUCTIVE STORM WITH TORNADOES DAMAGING HAIL AND EXTENSIVE FLASH FLOODING IN DESOTO COUNTY. THE STORM IS NOW EXPANDING INTO TATE COUNTY AND RESIDENTS OF THAT NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI COUNTY SOUTH SEEK COVER IMMEDIATELY. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Apr 26, 3:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 51 minutes before
TNZ049-088-089-MSZ001-002-003-007-008-262130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 329 PM CDT TUE APR 26 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WESTERN DESOTO AND TUNICA COUNTIES EXPIRED AT 330 PM... AT 325 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ARKABUTLA RESERVOIR IN TATE COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL MOVE NEAR HERNANDO BEFORE 4 PM. THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCED MARBLE SIZE HAIL NEAR PRICHARD MISSISSIPPI AROUND 255 PM...WHILE MARBLE SIZE HAIL FELL NEAR EUDORA IN DESOTO COUNTY AROUND 315 PM. PERSONS IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON AS STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO ERUPT IN THE AFTERNOON HEAT. THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON MAY PRODUCE HAIL...STRONG WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAINS. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. &
Special weather statement, Apr 26, 3:32 PM CDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before
TNZ049-088-089-MSZ001-002-003-007-008-262130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 329 PM CDT TUE APR 26 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WESTERN DESOTO AND TUNICA COUNTIES EXPIRED AT 330 PM... AT 325 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ARKABUTLA RESERVOIR IN TATE COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL MOVE NEAR HERNANDO BEFORE 4 PM. THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCED MARBLE SIZE HAIL NEAR PRICHARD MISSISSIPPI AROUND 255 PM...WHILE MARBLE SIZE HAIL FELL NEAR EUDORA IN DESOTO COUNTY AROUND 315 PM. PERSONS IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON AS STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO ERUPT IN THE AFTERNOON HEAT. THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON MAY PRODUCE HAIL...STRONG WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAINS. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | DeSoto | 45 min |
| Apr 26, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Marshall | 42 min |
| Apr 26, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Marshall | 45 min |
| Apr 27, 1:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Lee | 50 min |
| Apr 27, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tunica | 36 min |
| Apr 27, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | DeSoto, Tate | 49 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.