Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 30, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Nov 7, 1996, 12:15 PM CST for Lowndes County, Mississippi. It was in force for 50 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, 12:15 PM CST (18:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 7, 1996, 1:05 PM CST
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lowndes County, MS
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 963 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 239 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 276 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMEM 071817 RRA TORMEM MSC087-071905- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1215 PM CST THU NOV 7 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 105 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI ...SOUTHERN LOWNDES COUNTY AT 1213 PM CST...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COLUMBUS OR 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TRINITY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. THIS TORNADO WILL PASS NEAR TRINITY BY 1225 PM CST AND NEW HOPE BY 1235 PM CST. .IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE 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, Nov 7, 11:30 AM CST, 45 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, 44 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, 1:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Monroe | 34 min |
| Nov 7, 1:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Monroe | 29 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.