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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Memphis, TN

April 8, 1998DeSoto County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 8, 1998, 7:09 PM CDT for DeSoto County, Mississippi. It was in force for 51 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 8, 1998, 7:09 PM CDT (00:09 UTC)
Expired
Apr 8, 1998, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County DeSoto County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 6 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 1998-04-09Temperature 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 1998-04-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -71 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 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
2387 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
89 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-70 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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, Apr 8, 6:16 PM CDT, 53 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TENNESSEE
615 PM CST WED APR 08 1998

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

0512 PM    COLLINSTOWN               MS   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/08/98   ALCORN                         GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
                                          REPORTED BY ALCORN COUNTY
                                          911

0515 PM    CARDWELL                  MO   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/08/98   DUNKLIN                        GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
                                          REPORTED BY KENNETT POLICE
                                          DEPT

0517 PM    SAVANNAH                  TN   .75 INCH HAIL
04/08/98   HARDIN                         DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY
                                          SAVANNAH POLICE DEPT
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0540 PM    WYNNE                     AR   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/08/98   CROSS                          GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
                                          REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          SPOTTER

0545 PM    COLT                      AR   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/08/98   ST FRANCIS                     pGOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
                                          REPORTED BY ST FRANCIS
                                          COUNTY SHERIFF

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 8, 7:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGShelby51 min
Apr 8, 7:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGTunica34 min
Apr 8, 7:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCalhoun, Chickasaw32 min
Apr 8, 7:10 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGTishomingo35 min
Apr 8, 7:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGClay32 min
Apr 8, 8:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLowndes32 min
Apr 8, 8:19 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGLowndes31 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.