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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Memphis, TN

February 27, 1999Tallahatchie County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 27, 1999, 3:29 PM CST for Tallahatchie County, Mississippi. It was in force for 46 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
Feb 27, 1999, 3:29 PM CST (21:29 UTC)
Expired
Feb 27, 1999, 4:15 PM CST
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Tallahatchie County, MS

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Feb 27, 3:00 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 182 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, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 1999-02-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 17 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 1999-02-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 198 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
17 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
524 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
198 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
229 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 27, 4:25 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCalhoun, Pontotoc45 min
Feb 27, 4:44 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLee46 min
Feb 27, 4:49 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGChickasaw51 min
Feb 27, 5:12 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGItawamba, Monroe48 min
Feb 27, 2:36 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGPhillips34 min
Feb 27, 4:16 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGPoinsett29 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.