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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 293, NWS Memphis, TN

November 30, 1996Itawamba County, Lee County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 30, 1996, 8:32 PM CST for Itawamba County, Lee 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
Nov 30, 1996, 8:32 PM CST (02:32 UTC)
Expired
Nov 30, 1996, 9:20 PM CST
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Itawamba County, MS, Lee County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 202 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, Birmingham, AL at 00:00Z on 1996-12-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 53 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Birmingham, AL at 00:00Z on 1996-12-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 288 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
53 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-56 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
521 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
288 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
363 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 30, 8:28 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGPrentiss, Tishomingo52 min

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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.