Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 290, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 7, 1996, 1:21 PM CST for Monroe County, Mississippi. It was in force for 34 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, 1:21 PM CST (19:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 7, 1996, 1:55 PM CST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Monroe County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 171 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.
- 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
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, Nov 7, 11:30 AM CST, 1 hour 51 minutes before
TNZ001>006-019>024-048>056-088>092-072115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1130 AM CST THU NOV 7 1996 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 1116 IS CANCELLED... TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 1116 IS BEING REPLACED AND WILL NO LONGER BE IN EFFECT AFTER 1130 AM CST. HOWEVER TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 1118 HAS BEEN ISSUED AND IS EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CST TODAY. THE NEW TORNADO WATCH INCLUDES THE ALL OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE..MUCH OF THE PLATEAU..AND THE WESTERN TENNESSEE COUNTIES OF BENTON..DECATUR..AND HARDIN. SOME OF THE COUNTIES OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE THAT WERE UNDER TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 1116 ARE NOW INCLUDED IN WATCH NUMBER 1118 THAT IS VALID UNTIL 5 PM CST. COUNTIES IN WEST TENNESSEE THAT ARE CLEARED FROM ANY WATCHES ARE NORTHERN WEST: CARROLL..CROCKETT..DYER..GIBSON..HENRY..LAKE..OBION..WEAKLEY. FROM SOUTHERN WEST.. CHESTER..FAYETTE..HARDEMAN..HAYWOOD..HENDERSON..LAUDERDALE..MADISON.. MCNAIRY..SHELBY..TIPTON. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Nov 7, 11:31 AM CST, 1 hour 50 minutes before
TNZ001>006-019>024-048>056-088>092-072115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1130 AM CST THU NOV 7 1996 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 1116 IS CANCELLED... TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 1116 IS BEING REPLACED AND WILL NO LONGER BE IN EFFECT AFTER 1130 AM CST. HOWEVER TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 1118 HAS BEEN ISSUED AND IS EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CST TODAY. THE NEW TORNADO WATCH INCLUDES THE ALL OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE..MUCH OF THE PLATEAU..AND THE WESTERN TENNESSEE COUNTIES OF BENTON..DECATUR..AND HARDIN. SOME OF THE COUNTIES OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE THAT WERE UNDER TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 1116 ARE NOW INCLUDED IN WATCH NUMBER 1118 THAT IS VALID UNTIL 5 PM CST. COUNTIES IN WEST TENNESSEE THAT ARE CLEARED FROM ANY WATCHES ARE NORTHERN WEST: CARROLL..CROCKETT..DYER..GIBSON..HENRY..LAKE..OBION..WEAKLEY. FROM SOUTHERN WEST.. CHESTER..FAYETTE..HARDEMAN..HAYWOOD..HENDERSON..LAUDERDALE..MADISON.. MCNAIRY..SHELBY..TIPTON. STAY TUNED ,TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 7, 1:21 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Monroe | 34 min |
| Nov 7, 8:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | DeSoto | 47 min |
| Nov 7, 8:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | DeSoto, Marshall | 47 min |
| Nov 7, 9:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Benton | 48 min |
| Nov 7, 10:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tippah | 50 min |
| Nov 7, 11:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Alcorn | 51 min |
| Nov 7, 11:36 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Itawamba | 34 min |
| Nov 7, 12:02 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Chickasaw, Lee | 33 min |
| Nov 7, 12:09 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Itawamba | 36 min |
| Nov 7, 12:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lowndes | 50 min |
| Nov 7, 1:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Monroe | 29 min |
| Nov 7, 8:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Shelby | 45 min |
| Nov 7, 8:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Haywood, Tipton | 47 min |
| Nov 7, 9:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crockett | 47 min |
| Nov 7, 9:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardeman, Madison | 45 min |
| Nov 7, 9:42 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Gibson | 48 min |
| Nov 7, 10:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Weakley | 49 min |
| Nov 7, 10:42 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | McNairy | 48 min |
| Nov 7, 10:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Henry | 51 min |
| Nov 7, 11:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardin | 35 min |
| Nov 7, 11:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Henderson | 47 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.