Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 10, 2000, 2:04 PM CST for Calhoun County, Mississippi. It was in force for 51 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 10, 2000, 2:04 PM CST (20:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 10, 2000, 2:55 PM CST
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Calhoun County, MS
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 2:50 PM CST | Hail 0.88 | Pittsboro, MS | Hail ranged in size from dime to nickle. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 2:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 1826 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMEM 102004 SVRMEM MSC013-102055- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 204 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CALHOUN COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 255 PM CST * AT 203 PM CST... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PITTSBORO OR 9 MILES WEST OF CALHOUN CITY... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... CALHOUN CITY BY 225 PM CST PITTSBORO BY 230 PM CST VARDAMAN BY 245 PM CST .SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE THAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. N
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 1:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee, Union | 34 min |
| Mar 10, 2:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee | 32 min |
| Mar 10, 2:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Prentiss | 50 min |
| Mar 10, 3:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tishomingo | 31 min |
| Mar 10, 3:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee | 36 min |
| Mar 10, 3:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Monroe | 35 min |
| Mar 10, 4:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lafayette | 31 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.