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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 229, NWS Memphis, TN

December 16, 2000Lee County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 16, 2000, 1:41 PM CST for Lee County, Mississippi. It was in force for 34 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Dec 16, 2000, 1:41 PM CST (19:41 UTC)
Expired: Dec 16, 2000, 2:15 PM CST
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Lee County, MS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Dec 16, 1:48 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Tupelo, MS

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Dec 16, 10:15 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 125 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: 804 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 77 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 96 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 
WUUS54 KMEG 161942
SVRMEM
MSC081-162015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
141 PM CST SAT DEC 16 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 215 PM CST

* AT 138 PM CST...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM  
OVER TUPELO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM THROUGH 215 PM CST INCLUDE...
  SALTILLO...
  BALDWYN...GUNTOWN...

.A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER...A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE
WARNING. PREPARE TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY.

.STAY TUNED TO THIS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROADCAST FOR THE LATEST
UPDATES AND INFORMATION.

LAT...LON 3430 8885 3415 8866 3444 8854 3451 8869

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.

NWS Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Dec 16, 10:10 AM CST, 3 hours 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 16, 10:10 AM CST, 3 hours 31 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
1010 AM CST SAT DEC 16 2000

A FEW CHANGES PLANNED TO ZNS THIS AM. WARM...MOIST AIR SURGING NWD
INTO SRN SXNS OF FA AHEAD OF ARCTIC FRONT AND DEEPENING S/WV.
TORNADO BOX ABOUT TO COME OUT FOR THAT AREA. ARCTIC FRONT WILL SURGE
ACROSS AR DURING THE DAY. AS TEMPS START TO FALL AND INTENSE
S/WV MOVES THROUGH EXPECT A BRIEF PERIOD OF SHSN. MAYBE ENOUGH TO
ACCUMULATE UP TO AN INCH AbCROSS NW AREAS. WILL UP POPS IN THAT AREA
AND MAKE MINOR ADJUSTMENTS ELSEWHERE.  ANOTHER BUSY DAY...

.MEG...NONE.

MKZ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 16, 10:32 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Monroe	43 min
Dec 16, 11:23 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Monroe	37 min
Dec 16, 11:51 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Itawamba	39 min
Dec 16, 1:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Itawamba	35 min

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.