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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Memphis, TN

March 28, 1997Lee County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 28, 1997, 3:04 AM CST for Lee 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
Mar 28, 1997, 3:04 AM CST (09:04 UTC)
Expired
Mar 28, 1997, 3:35 AM CST
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Lee County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 131 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 00:00Z on 1997-03-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1997-03-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 184 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
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 280905 RRA
SVRMEM
MSC081-280935-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 335 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI

   ...LEE COUNTY
 
AT 300 AM..DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN
SOUTHWEST LEE COUNTY NEAR SHANNON. THIS STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST
AROUND 60 MPH AND WILL PASS NEAR VERONA BY 315 AM AND PLANTERSVILLE
BY 320 AM.

LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.

.SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTdNING...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 WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

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, 2 hours 14 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, 2 hours 12 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 28, 2:13 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGTippah32 min

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.