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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 197, NWS Memphis, TN

June 11, 1996Tishomingo County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1996, 3:55 PM CDT for Tishomingo County, Mississippi. It was in force for 30 min. 1 report 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
Jun 11, 1996, 3:55 PM CDT (20:55 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 1996, 4:25 PM CDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Tishomingo County, MS

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 11, 4:11 PM CDTHail 1.75Tishomingo, 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 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 157 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 1996-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 72 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 1996-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
72 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1414 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

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

Local storm report, Jun 11, 1:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TENNESSEE
1258 PM CDT TUE JUN 11 1996

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1210 PM    SALTILLO                  MS   WIND DAMAGE
06/11/96   LEE                            POWERLINES DOWN.
                                          REPORTED BY TOMBIGBEE
                                          ELECTRIC.

1230 PM    3 MILESL WEST OF FULTON    MS   WIND DAMAGE
06/11/96   ITAWAMBA                       TELEPHONE POLE SNAPPED.
                                          REPORTED BY TOMBIGBEE
                                          ELECTRIC.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 12:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGItawamba47 min
Jun 11, 12:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGItawamba, Lee45 min
Jun 11, 4:38 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMEGTishomingo2 hr
Jun 11, 12:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLee47 min
Jun 11, 12:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLee45 min

Nearby

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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.