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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 199, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1997, 1:34 PM CDT for Benton County, Union 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
- Jun 16, 1997, 1:34 PM CDT (18:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1997, 2:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Benton County, MS, Union County, MS
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:35 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 80 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMEM 161835 RRA SVRMEM MSC009-145-161905- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 134 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 205 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI ...SOUTHERN BENTON COUNTY ...WESTERN UNION COUNTY AT 131 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH DAMAGING WINDS FROM NEAR POTTS CAMP TO CAMBRIDGE. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL CROSS HIGHWAY 78 AND PASS NEAR HICKORY FLAT AND MYRTLE BY 145 AND 200 PM. .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 WATERj COVERS THE ROAD.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 1:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Prentiss, Union | 49 min |
| Jun 16, 1:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Panola | 36 min |
| Jun 16, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Union | 17 min |
| Jun 16, 2:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee, Pontotoc | 49 min |
| Jun 16, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba | 30 min |
| Jun 16, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Yalobusha | 31 min |
| Jun 16, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Clay | 31 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.