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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 230, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 16, 2000, 1:55 PM CST for Itawamba County, Mississippi. It was in force for 35 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, 1:55 PM CST (19:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 16, 2000, 2:30 PM CST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Itawamba County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 16, 2:10 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Fulton, MS | Numerous trees were blown down. |
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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KMEG 161956 SVRMEM MSC057-162030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 155 PM CST SAT DEC 16 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ITAWAMBA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 230 PM CST * AT 152 PM CST...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR MANTACHIE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM THROUGH 230 PM CST INCLUDE... FULTON... SANDY SPRINGS... FAIRVIEW... .A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WKARNING. PREPARE TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. .STAY TUNED TO THIS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROADCAST FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND INFORMATION. LAT...LON 3437 8865 3421 8855 3426 8817 3451 8819
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 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 16, 10:10 AM CST, 3 hours 45 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, 1:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee | 34 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.