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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Memphis, TN

February 16, 1995Lowndes County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 16, 1995, 5:58 AM CST for Lowndes County, Mississippi. It was in force for 17 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 16, 1995, 5:58 AM CST (11:58 UTC)
Expired: Feb 16, 1995, 6:15 AM CST
In force: 17 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Lowndes County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 158 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: 660 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 532 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 313 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 346 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.9

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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 16, 12:48 AM CST, 5 hours 10 minutes before

MSZ005-006-009-017-016-002-003-004-013-014-015-023-024-030-031-
033-160745-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS
1248 AM CST THU FEB 16 1995

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 67 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM
CST FOR MUCH OF NORTH MISSISSIPPI...

AT 1234 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN TUPELO INDICATED TWO
VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING OVER NORTHWEST AND SOUTHWEST CALHOUN
COUNTY MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.

THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE FREQUENT LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS TO 45
MILES AN HOUR...AND LOWLAND AND STREET FLOODING DUE TO VERY HEAVY RAINS.

ANYONE LIVING IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BECOME
WEATHER ALERT AND TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER
APPROACH.

LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND/OR COMMERCIAL RADIO/TELEVISION FOR
FURTHER STATEMENTS OF POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

NNNN

Special weather statement, Feb 16, 2:51 AM CST, 3 hours 7 minutes before

MSZ005-006-009-017-016-002-003-004-013-014-015-023-024-030-031-
033-161000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS
251 AM CST THU FEB 16 1995

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 67 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM
FOR MUCH OF NORTH MISSISSIPPI...
...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR ITAWAMBA COUNTY...

AT 240 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM ENTERING ALABAMA...MARION COUNTY.... AND A DEVELOPING STRONTHUNDERSTORM ENTERING LAFAYETTE COUNTY.

THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND CAN
PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS TO 40 MILES AN HOUR...FREQUENT
LIGHTNING...AND MINOR LOWLAND AND STREET FLOODING DUE TO HEAVY RAINS.

ANYONE LIVING IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BECOME
WEATHER ALERT AND TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER
APPROACH.

LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND/OR COMMERCIAL RADIO/TELEVISION FOR
FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

NNNN

Special weather statement, Feb 16, 3:56 AM CST, 2 hours 2 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Feb 16, 5:41 AM CST, 17 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
Feb 15, 9:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Itawamba	31 min
Feb 16, 1:02 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chickasaw	43 min
Feb 16, 1:25 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Pontotoc	35 min
Feb 16, 2:02 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lee	28 min
Feb 16, 2:20 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Itawamba	25 min
Feb 16, 3:03 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Lee	3 hr
Feb 16, 5:16 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Oktibbeha	44 min
Feb 16, 7:24 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chickasaw, Monroe	36 min
Feb 16, 7:58 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Monroe	32 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1995 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.