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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Sep 16, 1996, 7:41 AM CDT for Mississippi County, Arkansas. It was in force for 44 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 16, 1996, 7:41 AM CDT (12:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 1996, 8:25 AM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mississippi County, AR
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 7:45 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Huffman, AR |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 314 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
- 351 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 564 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 327 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 388 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMEM 161245 TORMEM ARC093-161325- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 741 AM CDT MON SEP 16 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 825 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEASTERN ARKANSAS ...CENTRAL AND NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI COUNTY AT 740 AM CDT...A DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR JUST NORTHEAST OF LEPANTO ON THE MISSISSIPPI-POINSETT COUNTY LINE. THIS TORNADO WILL PASS NEAR THREE WAY BY 750 AM CDT... OSCEOLA BY 800 AM CDT... BURDETTE BY 805 AM CDT. .IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR P:IECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SAFETY IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
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, Sep 16, 5:04 AM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before
TNZ001>102-170000- TENNESSEE SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 500 AM CDT MON SEP 16 1996 ...SEVERE WEATHER POSSIBLE OVER TENNESSEE TODAY..ESPECIALLY OVER THE WEST AND MIDDLE... A LOW PRESSURE CENTERED IN WESTERN ARKANSAS THIS MORNING WILL BE MOVING INTO KENTUCKY BY THIS MONDAY EVENING. ITS ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN MAKING ENTRANCE INTO WEST TENNESSEE DURING THE COURSE OF THIS AFTERNOON..AND THEN REACHING THE PLATEAU BY MIDNIGHT. MOISTURE HAS ALREADY INCREASED..AND THE STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS IN ADVANCE OF THE FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO PROVIDE A STEADY FEED OF GULF MOISTURE. THE ATMOSPHERE IN ADVANCE OF THE FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO BECOME MORE UNSTABLE AS TEMPERATURES WARM DURING THE DAY. YOU ARE URGED TO REMAIN AWARE OF THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION REGARDING THIS SITUATION BY MONITORING NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL RADIO AND TELEVISION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 6:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Poinsett | 63 min |
| Sep 16, 7:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Mississippi | 44 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.