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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 197, NWS Memphis, TN

June 16, 1997Prentiss County, Union County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1997, 1:06 PM CDT for Prentiss County, Union 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
Jun 16, 1997, 1:06 PM CDT (18:06 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 1997, 1:55 PM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Prentiss County, MS, Union County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 113 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 1997-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2338 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1997-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 141 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
2338 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
665 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
141 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.1
Supercell composite
9.2

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 16, 1:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGPanola36 min
Jun 16, 1:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGBenton, Union31 min
Jun 16, 2:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGUnion17 min
Jun 16, 2:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLee, Pontotoc49 min
Jun 16, 2:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGItawamba30 min
Jun 16, 3:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGYalobusha31 min
Jun 16, 5:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGClay31 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.