Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 27, 2000, 7:18 PM CDT for Itawamba County, Lee County, Mississippi. It was in force for 32 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
- Apr 27, 2000, 7:18 PM CDT (00:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 2000, 7:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Itawamba County, MS, Lee County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 7:28 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Guntown, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 1921 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 82 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 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 280017 SVRMEM MSC057-081-145-280050- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 718 PM CDT THU APR 27 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ITAWAMBA COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI LEE COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI EASTERN UNION COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 750 PM CDT * AT 714 PM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERAL SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL FROM JUST EAST OF NEW ALBANY THROUGH BLAIR TO NORTHERN ITAWAMBA COUNTY. ALL STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BLUE SPRINGS BY 730 PM SALTILLO BY 730 PM FAIRVIEW BY 730 PM .WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. N
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 Apr 27, 2:50 PM CDT, 4 hours 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 27, 2:50 PM CDT, 4 hours 28 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 250 PM CDT THU APR 27 2000 RADAR IS INDICATING A FEW THUNDERSTORMS BEGINNING TO MOVE INTO THE NORTHERN PART OF THE FORECAST AREA. ACTIVITY IS MOVING TO THE EAST WITH SOME SOUTHWARD DEVELOPMENT OF THE LINE. BELIEVE THAT ONCE THE LINE MOVES OUT OF THE FORECAST AREA...THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL END. WILL INCLUDE A LATE AFTERNOON PERIOD MENTIONING A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS AND THEN GO WITH A DRY FORECAST FOR TONIGHT. HIGH PRESSURE WILL MOVE IN GIVING US A DRY AND PLEASANT WEEKEND. FWC TEMPERATURES APPEAR TOO HIGH FOR FRIDAY AND GENERALLY WENT BELOW THOSE NUMBERS. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS MEM 53/77/54/78 000 MKL 47/75/48/76 000 JBR 48/77/49/77 000 TUP 51/76/52/78 000 .MEM...NONE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 27, 6:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
TNZ002>004-019>021-048>055-088>090-272345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 612 PM CDT THU APR 27 2000 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 212 CANCELLED FOR MOST OF WEST TENNESSEE... THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT HAS ENDED FOR MOST OF WEST TENNESSEE...SO THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM FOR MCNAIRY AND HARDIN COUNTIES OF WEST TEN<NESSEE AND MUCH OF NORTH MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 900 PM. N
Special weather statement, Apr 27, 6:45 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
TNZ091-092-280005- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 645 PM CDT THU APR 27 2000 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 212 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR ALL OF WEST TENNESSEE... THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT HAS ENDED FOR ALL OF WEST TENNESSEE. THE SEVERE WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED. N
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Union | 32 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.