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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 140, NWS Memphis, TN

May 27, 1996Lowndes County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1996, 6:05 PM CDT for Lowndes County, Mississippi. It was in force for 25 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
May 27, 1996, 6:05 PM CDT (23:05 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 1996, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Lowndes County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 205 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 12:00Z on 1996-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2617 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 12:00Z on 1996-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 236 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
2617 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
655 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
236 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
188 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.2
Supercell composite
11.7

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 27, 2:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCoahoma46 min
May 27, 3:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCoahoma, Quitman41 min
May 27, 4:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGPanola34 min
May 27, 4:53 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGPanola37 min
May 27, 5:02 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGLafayette43 min
May 27, 5:49 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGPontotoc41 min
May 27, 5:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGYalobusha25 min
May 27, 6:21 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGLee39 min
May 27, 6:53 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGItawamba37 min
May 27, 11:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGObion46 min
May 27, 12:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGShelby32 min
May 27, 2:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGShelby37 min
May 27, 3:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGHardin27 min
May 27, 11:56 AM CDTTornado WarningMEGMississippi34 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.