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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 177, NWS Memphis, TN

May 28, 1996Prentiss County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1996, 10:27 PM CDT for Prentiss 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: May 28, 1996, 10:27 PM CDT (03:27 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 1996, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Prentiss County, MS

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 28, 10:36 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Booneville, MS
May 28, 10:44 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Thrashers, 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

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 133 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: 3264 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 944 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 127 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.4
Supercell composite: 10.6

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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, May 28, 10:03 PM CDT, 24 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
May 28, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton	32 min
May 28, 8:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Tippah	35 min
May 28, 8:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Tippah	38 min
May 28, 8:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tishomingo	36 min
May 28, 9:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Alcorn	32 min
May 28, 10:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Marshall	51 min
May 28, 10:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Alcorn	33 min
May 28, 10:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Prentiss	36 min
May 28, 10:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tishomingo	32 min
May 28, 7:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Hardin	30 min
May 28, 8:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Hardeman	49 min
May 28, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Fayette	49 min
May 28, 8:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Shelby	40 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1996 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.