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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 152, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 27, 1998, 7:07 PM CDT for Coahoma County, Mississippi. It was in force for 33 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
- Apr 27, 1998, 7:07 PM CDT (00:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 1998, 7:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Coahoma County, MS
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -141 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1140 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
472 WUUS1 KMEM 280006 RRA SVRMEM MSC027-280040- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 707 PM CDT MON APR 27 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN COAHOMA COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 740 PM CDT * AT 706 PM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS JUST SOUTHWEST OF DUBLIN MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... DUBLIN BY 715 PM CDT .WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 7:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Benton, Marshall | 3 hr |
| Apr 27, 7:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Union | 50 min |
| Apr 27, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tate | 33 min |
| Apr 27, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Marshall | 47 min |
| Apr 27, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tippah | 49 min |
| Apr 27, 7:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Tippah | 47 min |
| Apr 27, 7:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Marshall | 51 min |
| Apr 27, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tunica | 47 min |
| Apr 27, 7:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Union | 48 min |
| Apr 27, 8:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Tippah | 51 min |
| Apr 27, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tallahatchie | 30 min |
| Apr 27, 8:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Benton, Marshall | 47 min |
| Apr 27, 8:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Benton, Marshall, Tippah | 3 hr |
| Apr 27, 9:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Benton | 27 min |
| Apr 27, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lafayette | 51 min |
| Apr 27, 10:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Union | 34 min |
| Apr 27, 10:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Prentiss | 58 min |
| Apr 28, 1:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Benton, Marshall, Tippah | 3 hr |
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.