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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 276, NWS Memphis, TN

October 25, 1997Tishomingo County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 25, 1997, 5:28 PM CDT for Tishomingo County, Mississippi. It was in force for 32 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: Oct 25, 1997, 5:28 PM CDT (22:28 UTC)
Expired: Oct 25, 1997, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Tishomingo County, MS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Oct 25, 5:40 PM CDT	Hail 3	Belmont, 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Oct 25, 3:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 157 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: 452 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -131 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 524 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 185 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 177 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

019 
WUUS1 KMEM 252232 RRA
SVRMEM
MSC141-252300-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
528 PM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI

   ...SOUTHERN TISHOMINGO COUNTY
 
AT 526 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXTREME SOUTHWEST TISHOMINGO COUNTY.
THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL AFFECT BELMONT AND
GOLDEN BY 545 PM.

.A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.
REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE
TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE
ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

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, Oct 25, 3:05 PM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TENNESSEE
305 PM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997

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

0110 PM    WEST HELENA               AR   WIND DAMAGE
10/25/97   PHILLIPS                       POLICE CAR WINDSHIELD
                                          DESTROYED BY FALLING TREE
                                          LIMBS REPORTED BY PHILLIPS
                                          COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE

0205 PM    BATESVILLE                MS   .75 INCH HAIL
10/25/97   PANOLA                         DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY
                                          EMA DIRECTOR

Local storm report, Oct 25, 3:09 PM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TENNESSEE
305 PM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997

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

0110 PM    WEST HELENA               AR   WIND DAMAGE
10/25/97   PHILLIPS                       POLICE CAR WINDSHIELD
                                          DESTROYED BY FALLING TREE
                                          LIMBS REPORTED BY PHILLIPS
                                          COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE

0205 PM    BATESVILLE                MS   .75 INCH HAIL
10/25/97   PANOLA                         DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY
                                          EMA DIRECTOR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 25, 6:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tallahatchie	48 min
Oct 25, 7:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tallahatchie, Yalobusha	32 min
Oct 25, 8:03 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Yalobusha	32 min
Oct 25, 8:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Calhoun	33 min
Oct 25, 9:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lee	45 min
Oct 25, 9:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chickasaw	17 min
Oct 25, 9:51 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lee	34 min
Oct 25, 10:08 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Itawamba	47 min
Oct 25, 1:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tunica	40 min
Oct 25, 1:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Panola, Quitman	48 min
Oct 25, 4:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lee	33 min
Oct 25, 4:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Itawamba, Lee, Prentiss	35 min
Oct 25, 4:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Itawamba, Tishomingo	33 min
Oct 25, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lee	35 min
Oct 25, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Itawamba	35 min
Oct 25, 5:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Calhoun, Chickasaw	48 min
Oct 25, 6:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Chickasaw	33 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.