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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 122, NWS Memphis, TN

April 29, 1996Tishomingo County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 29, 1996, 12:42 PM CDT for Tishomingo County, Mississippi. It was in force for 33 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Apr 29, 1996, 12:42 PM CDT (17:42 UTC)
Expired
Apr 29, 1996, 1:15 PM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Tishomingo County, MS

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Apr 29, 12:47 PM CDTHail 2.75Tishomingo, MS
Apr 29, 1:10 PM CDTThunderstorm WindTishomingo, MS

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 214 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1996-04-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 204 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1996-04-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 169 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
204 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-103 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
983 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
169 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
227 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 29, 1:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGDeSoto38 min
Apr 29, 12:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLee39 min
Apr 29, 1:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMonroe34 min
Apr 29, 1:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGShelby44 min
Apr 29, 1:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGTipton42 min
Apr 29, 2:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGHaywood46 min
Apr 28, 11:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGRandolph25 min
Apr 28, 11:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCraighead, Lawrence33 min
Apr 28, 11:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGClay, Greene40 min
Apr 28, 11:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCraighead29 min
Apr 29, 12:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMississippi39 min
Apr 29, 12:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCraighead34 min
Apr 29, 12:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCrittenden29 min
Apr 29, 2:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMississippi32 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.