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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Memphis, TN

April 29, 1996Pemiscot County, Missouri

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 29, 1996, 12:26 AM CDT for Pemiscot County, Missouri. It was in force for 34 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 29, 1996, 12:26 AM CDT (05:26 UTC)
Expired
Apr 29, 1996, 1:00 AM CDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Pemiscot County, MO

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 154 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 1996-04-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1805 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 1996-04-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 222 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1805 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1237 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
222 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
310 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.7
Supercell composite
9.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMEM 290527
SVRMEM
MOC155-290600-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
1226 AM CDT MON APR 29 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI

   ...PEMISCOT COUNTY
 
AT 1225 AM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER
WEATHER RADAR 10 MILES WEST OF CARUTHERSVILLE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

THIS STORM WILL PASS NEAR CARUTHERSVILLE BY 1240 AM CDT.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.
REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE
TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE
ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 28, 11:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGDunklin41 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.