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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Memphis, TN

March 5, 1996Lee County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 5, 1996, 8:16 PM CST for Lee County, Mississippi. It was in force for 44 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
Mar 5, 1996, 8:16 PM CST (02:16 UTC)
Expired
Mar 5, 1996, 9:00 PM CST
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Lee County, MS

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:18 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Mar 5, 8:40 PM CSTThunderstorm WindNettleton, MS
Mar 5, 8:45 PM CSTThunderstorm WindTupelo, 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, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 131 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 1996-03-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1051 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 1996-03-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 173 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1051 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
723 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
173 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
266 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.4
Supercell composite
5.4

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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
Mar 5, 9:27 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGTallahatchie48 min
Mar 5, 9:38 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGYalobusha37 min
Mar 6, 3:46 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCoahoma, Quitman44 min
Mar 6, 5:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGTallahatchie45 min
Mar 6, 2:13 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGHardeman, Madison32 min
Mar 6, 3:24 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGHardin36 min
Mar 5, 8:39 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGLawrence36 min
Mar 5, 9:15 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGRandolph30 min
Mar 5, 10:34 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGRandolph26 min
Mar 6, 12:25 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCross35 min
Mar 6, 12:36 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGPoinsett39 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.