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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Memphis, TN

May 30, 1997Tate County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 1997, 6:46 PM CDT for Tate County, Mississippi. It was in force for 49 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
May 30, 1997, 6:46 PM CDT (23:46 UTC)
Expired
May 30, 1997, 7:35 PM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Tate County, MS

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 30, 7:12 PM CDTHail 0.75Senatobia, 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 watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 30, 2:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 20 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 1997-05-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1303 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 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 1997-05-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 115 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1303 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
504 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
115 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.3

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The text

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

915 
WUUS1 KMEM 302348 RRA
SVRMEM
MSC137-310035-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
646 PM CDT FRI MAY 30 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 735 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHWESTERN MISSISSIPPI

   ...TATE COUNTY
 
AT 644 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS NEAR STRAYHORN MOVING EAST AT 30
MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL PASS OVER COLDWATER AND SENATOBIA BY
700 PM CDT.

.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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 30, 4:31 PM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TENNESSEE
431 PM CDT FRI MAY 30 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0345 PM    JONESBORO                 AR   .75 INCH HAIL
05/30/97   CRAIGHEAD                      DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          NORTH OF JONESBORO BY EOC

0405 PM    LAKE CITY                 AR   1 INCH HAIL
05/30/97   CRAIGHEAD                      QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORT
                                          RELAYED BY JONESBORO EOC
Local storm report, May 30, 4:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TENNESSEE
431 PM CDT FRI MAY 30 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0345 PM    JONESBORO                 AR   .75 INCH HAIL
05/30/97   CRAIGHEAD                      DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          NORTH OF JONESBORO BY EOC

0405 PM    LAKE CITY                 AR   1 INCH HAIL
05/30/97   CRAIGHEAD                      QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORT
                                          RELAYED BY JONESBORO EOC

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.