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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Memphis, TN

March 28, 1997Tippah County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 28, 1997, 2:13 AM CST for Tippah County, Mississippi. It was in force for 32 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: Mar 28, 1997, 2:13 AM CST (08:13 UTC)
Expired: Mar 28, 1997, 2:45 AM CST
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Tippah County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 95 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: 2290 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 184 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 252 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 280814 RRA
SVRMEM
MSC139-280845-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
213 AM CST FRI MAR 28 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI

   ...TIPPAH COUNTY
 
AT 210 AM..DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR BLUE
MOUNTAIN MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. THIS STORM WILL PASS NEAR
RIPLEY BY 220 AM AND BY PEOPLES BY 230 AM.

LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.


.WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONEzS 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, Mar 28, 12:50 AM CST, 1 hour 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TENNESSEE
1250 AM CST FRI MAR 28 1997

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

1210 AM    RAVENDEN SPRINGS          AR   .88 INCH HAIL
03/28/97   RANDOLPH                       NICKLE SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          BY RANDOLPH COUNTY
                                          SHERIFFS OFFICE

Local storm report, Mar 28, 12:52 AM CST, 1 hour 21 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TENNESSEE
1250 AM CST FRI MAR 28 1997

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

1210 AM    RAVENDEN SPRINGS          AR   .88 INCH HAIL
03/28/97   RANDOLPH                       NICKLE SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          BY RANDOLPH COUNTY
                                          SHERIFFS OFFICE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 28, 3:04 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lee	31 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1997 Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.