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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Memphis, TN

March 5, 1996Tallahatchie County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 5, 1996, 9:27 PM CST for Tallahatchie County, Mississippi. It was in force for 48 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
Mar 5, 1996, 9:27 PM CST (03:27 UTC)
Expired
Mar 5, 1996, 10:15 PM CST
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Tallahatchie County, MS

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:28 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 100 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

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMEM 060328
SVRMEM
MSC135-060415-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
927 PM CST TUE MAR 5 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM CST
FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...TALLAHATCHIE COUNTY
 
AT 925 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING
LARGE HAIL JUST WEST OF CHARLESTON. MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN
HOUR...THIS STORM WILL AFFECT CHARLESTON BY 945 PM
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 58
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION M&OVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 5, 8:16 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLee44 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

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.