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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Memphis, TN

January 24, 1997Chickasaw County, Clay County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 24, 1997, 4:56 PM CST for Chickasaw County, Clay County, Mississippi. It was in force for 49 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, 4:56 PM CST (22:56 UTC)
Expired
Jan 24, 1997, 5:45 PM CST
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Chickasaw County, MS, Clay County, MS

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jan 24, 3:30 PM CSTTornado WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 153 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.

000 
TTAA00 KMEM 242257 RRA
SVRMEM
MSC017-025-242345-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM CST FOR PERSONS IN THE
FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN NORTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI

   ...CHICKASAW COUNTY
   ...CLAY COUNTY
 
AT 455 PM ... DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR IDENTIFIED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WOODLAND .. IN CHICKASAW COUNTY.  MOVING TOWARD
THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH ... THIS STORM WILL BRING LARGE HAIL AND
STRONG WIND TO THE AREAS BETWEEN WOODLAND AND MONTPELIER BEFORE 530
PM.

.WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

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, 4:54 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLafayette31 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

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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.