Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Jan 17, 1996, 8:49 PM CST for Marshall County, Mississippi; Fayette County, Tennessee. It was in force for 26 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
- Jan 17, 1996, 8:49 PM CST (02:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 17, 1996, 9:15 PM CST
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Marshall County, MS, Fayette County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 48 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
- 18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1126 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 267 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 437 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 tornado 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, Jan 17, 2:54 PM CST, 5 hours 55 minutes before
TNZ001>004-019>021-048>054-088>092-180445- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 255 PM CST WED JAN 17 1996 ...BIG WEATHER CHANGES COMING FOR WEST TENNESSEE LATE TONIGHT AND THURSDAY... A DEVELOPING LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM IN THE CENTRAL PLAINS WILL BRING A WIDE VARIETY OF WEATHER TO WEST TENNESSEE LATER TONIGHT AND THURSDAY. THIS WILL INCLUDE THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE WEATHER LATE TONIGHT AND THURSDAY MORNING...FOLLOWED BY MUCH COLDER TEMPERATURES AND VERY LOW WIND CHILLS THURSDAY NIGHT. AS THE LOW PRESSURE CENTER MOVES EAST LATER TONIGHT AND THURSDAY... A POWERFUL COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO WEST TENNESSEE AROUND NOON AND BE INTO MIDDLE TENNESSEE BY SUNSET. AHEAD OF AND ALONG THE FRONT STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL KEEPS TEMPERATURES MILD BUT WILL ALSO BRING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO WEST TENNESSEE AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT CONTINUING INTO THURSDAY MORNING. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE WITH THE MAIN THREAT BEING DAMAGING WINDS. RESIDENTS OF WEST TENNESSEE SHOULD KEEP A CLOSE EYE ON THE WEATHER LATE TONIGHT AND THURSDAY MORNING. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR FURTHER UPDATES. BEHIND THE FRONT THURSDAY AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES WILL FALL SHARPLY INTO THE 30S ON GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS OF 20 TO 25 MPH. RAIN WILL GRADUALLY DIMINISH DURING THE AFTERNOON AS THE COLDER AIR RUSHES IN. THURSDAY NIGHT WILL BE VERY COLD WITH LOW TEMPERATURES REACHING THE TEENS BEFORE DAYBREAK. THIS COMBINED WITH NORTHWEST WINDS OF 15 TO 20 MPH WILL PRODUCE WIND CHILLS AS LOW AS 10 BELOW ZERO. A FEW SNOW FLURRIES WILL BE AROUND THURSDAY NIGHT BUT WILL BE OF LITTLE CONSEQUENCE. SO AFTER A FEW DAYS OF MILD WEATHER.P..RESIDENTS OF WEST TENNESSEE SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR A QUICK RETURN OF WINTER THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT. RES
Special weather statement, Jan 17, 2:55 PM CST, 5 hours 54 minutes before
TNZ001>004-019>021-048>054-088>092-180445- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 255 PM CST WED JAN 17 1996 ...BIG WEATHER CHANGES COMING FOR WEST TENNESSEE LATE TONIGHT AND THURSDAY... A DEVELOPING LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM IN THE CENTRAL PLAINS WILL BRING A WIDE VARIETY OF WEATHER TO WEST TENNESSEE LATER TONIGHT AND THURSDAY. THIS WILL INCLUDE THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE WEATHER LATE TONIGHT AND THURSDAY MORNING...FOLLOWED BY MUCH COLDER TEMPERATURES AND VERY LOW WIND CHILLS THURSDAY NIGHT. AS THE LOW PRESSURE CENTER MOVES EAST LATER TONIGHT AND THURSDAY... A POWERFUL COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO WEST TENNESSEE AROUND NOON AND BE INTO MIDDLE TENNESSEE BY SUNSET. AHEAD OF AND ALONG THE FRONT STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL KEEPS TEMPERATURES MILD BUT WILL ALSO BRING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO WEST TENNESSEE AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT CONTINUING INTO THURSDAY MORNING. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE WITH THE MAIN THREAT BEING DAMAGING WINDS. RESIDENTS OF WEST TENNESSEE SHOULD KEEP A CLOSE EYE ON THE WEATHER LATE TONIGHT AND THURSDAY MORNING. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR FURTHER UPDATES. BEHIND THE FRONT THURSDAY AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES WILL FALL SHARPLY INTO THE 30S ON GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS OF 20 TO 25 MPH. RAIN WILL GRADUALLY DIMINISH DURING THE AFTERNOON AS THE COLDER AIR RUSHES IN. THURSDAY NIGHT WILL BE VERY COLD WITH LOW TEMPERATURES REACHING THE TEENS BEFORE DAYBREAK. THIS COMBINED WITH NORTHWEST WINDS OF 15 TO 20 MPH WILL PRODUCE WIND CHILLS AS LOW AS 10 BELOW ZERO. A FEW SNOW FLURRIES WILL BE AROUND THURSDAY NIGHT BUT WILL BE OF LITTLE CONSEQUENCE. SO AFTER A FEW DAYS OF MILD WEATHER...RESIDENTS OF WEST TENNESSEE SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR A QUICK RETURN OF WINTER THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT. RES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 17, 8:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | DeSoto, Marshall | 30 min |
| Jan 18, 8:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | DeSoto, Marshall | 30 min |
| Jan 18, 8:49 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Marshall | 26 min |
| Jan 18, 10:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Lee, Prentiss | 35 min |
| Jan 18, 10:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tishomingo | 35 min |
| Jan 18, 11:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Tishomingo | 34 min |
| Jan 18, 8:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Shelby | 42 min |
| Jan 18, 8:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Haywood, Lauderdale, Tipton | 56 min |
| Jan 18, 8:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette | 54 min |
| Jan 18, 8:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Dyer, Lake, Obion | 49 min |
| Jan 18, 9:17 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Fayette, Haywood | 43 min |
| Jan 18, 9:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Weakley | 33 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Mississippi, 1996Tornado Warnings in Tennessee, 1996Every tornado warning in 1996Tornadoes 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.