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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Memphis, TN

January 24, 1997Lafayette County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 24, 1997, 4:54 PM CST for Lafayette County, Mississippi. It was in force for 31 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 24, 1997, 4:54 PM CST (22:54 UTC)
Expired
Jan 24, 1997, 5:25 PM CST
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Lafayette County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 68 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, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 1997-01-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 1997-01-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 92 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
612 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
114 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

745 
WUUS1 KMEM 242255 RRA
SVRMEM
MSC071-242325-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
454 PM CST FRI JAN 24 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 525 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHWESTERN MISSISSIPPI

   ...LAFAYETTE COUNTY
 
AT 453 PM...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
OVER LAFAYETTE COUNTY...WITH THE MOST INTENSE STORM JUST EAST OF
SPRINGDALE. THE STORM WILL MOVE EAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL AFFECT
SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF THE COUNTY...INCLUDING PARIS AND TULA.

.SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR
PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE
INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 24, 3:52 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGItawamba48 min
Jan 24, 4:18 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLafayette37 min
Jan 24, 4:43 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGUnion47 min
Jan 24, 4:43 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGYalobusha47 min
Jan 24, 4:56 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGChickasaw, Clay49 min
Jan 24, 5:10 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGPontotoc35 min
Jan 24, 5:16 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLee49 min
Jan 24, 5:26 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMonroe49 min
Jan 24, 5:48 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGItawamba32 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.