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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Memphis, TN

January 24, 1997Pontotoc County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 24, 1997, 5:10 PM CST for Pontotoc County, Mississippi. It was in force for 35 min. 2 reports 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: Jan 24, 1997, 5:10 PM CST (23:10 UTC)
Expired: Jan 24, 1997, 5:45 PM CST
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Pontotoc County, MS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jan 24, 5:16 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Longview, MS
Jan 24, 5:17 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Sherman, MS

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

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 107 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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 242312 RRA
SVRMEM
MSC115-242345-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
510 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 PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI

   ...PONTOTOC COUNTY
 
AT 508 PM... DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 5
MILES NORTH OF PONTOTOC MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM WILL
PASS NORTH OF PONTOTOC AND AFFECT THE NIXON AND ENVILLE. ANOTHER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR TULA IN LAFAYETTE COUNTY WILL MOVE INTO
WESTERN SECTIONS OF THE COUNTY NEAR RANDOLPH.

.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 WHE
RE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 24, 3:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Itawamba	48 min
Jan 24, 4:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lafayette	37 min
Jan 24, 4:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Union	47 min
Jan 24, 4:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Yalobusha	47 min
Jan 24, 4:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lafayette	31 min
Jan 24, 4:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chickasaw, Clay	49 min
Jan 24, 5:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lee	49 min
Jan 24, 5:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Monroe	49 min
Jan 24, 5:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Itawamba	32 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.