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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Nov 8, 2000, 4:28 PM CST for Lee County, Prentiss County, Mississippi. It was in force for 32 min. 3 reports 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
- Nov 8, 2000, 4:28 PM CST (22:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 8, 2000, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lee County, MS, Prentiss County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 8, 4:47 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Wheeler, MS | A tornado briefly touched down in the southern part of Prentiss county producing little damage. |
| Nov 8, 4:50 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Guntown, MS | |
| Nov 8, 4:50 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Guntown, MS | Several power lines 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 8, 3:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 457 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 294 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMEG 082228 TORMEM MSC081-117-082300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 428 PM CST WED NOV 8 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN LEE COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI PRENTISS COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 500 PM CST * AT 426 PM CST... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR SALTILLO OR 12 MILES NORTH OF TUPELO...MOVING AT 50 MILES AN HOUR. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... BALDWIN AT 440 PM CST WHEELER AT 450 PM CST BOONVILLE BY 500 PM CST .IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...GO TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. PROTECT YOUR HEAD OR BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS. N
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 8, 3:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee, Prentiss | 31 min |
| Nov 8, 4:46 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Alcorn, Tishomingo | 29 min |
| Nov 8, 5:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Marshall | 33 min |
| Nov 8, 5:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Quitman | 27 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.