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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 285, NWS Memphis, TN

November 7, 1996McNairy County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 7, 1996, 10:42 AM CST for McNairy County, Tennessee. 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
Nov 7, 1996, 10:42 AM CST (16:42 UTC)
Expired
Nov 7, 1996, 11:30 AM CST
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County McNairy County, TN

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:45 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 132 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 1996-11-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1996-11-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -434 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
772 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
85 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-434 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-137 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 7, 1:21 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMonroe34 min
Nov 7, 8:18 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGDeSoto47 min
Nov 7, 8:53 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGDeSoto, Marshall47 min
Nov 7, 9:52 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGBenton48 min
Nov 7, 10:30 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGTippah50 min
Nov 7, 11:14 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGAlcorn51 min
Nov 7, 11:36 AM CSTTornado WarningMEGItawamba34 min
Nov 7, 12:02 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGChickasaw, Lee33 min
Nov 7, 12:09 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGItawamba36 min
Nov 7, 12:15 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGLowndes50 min
Nov 7, 1:21 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMonroe34 min
Nov 7, 1:26 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMonroe29 min
Nov 7, 8:10 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGShelby45 min
Nov 7, 8:53 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGHaywood, Tipton47 min
Nov 7, 9:28 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCrockett47 min
Nov 7, 9:40 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGHardeman, Madison45 min
Nov 7, 9:42 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGGibson48 min
Nov 7, 10:11 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGWeakley49 min
Nov 7, 10:44 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGHenry51 min
Nov 7, 11:00 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGHardin35 min
Nov 7, 11:03 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGHenderson47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.