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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 251, NWS Memphis, TN

November 24, 2001Tippah County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 24, 2001, 7:08 AM CST for Tippah County, Mississippi. It was in force for 37 min. 2 reports 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: Nov 24, 2001, 7:08 AM CST (13:08 UTC)
Expired: Nov 24, 2001, 7:45 AM CST
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Tippah County, MS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Nov 24, 7:10 AM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Ripley, MS	Several trees were blown down.
Nov 24, 7:50 AM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Blue Mtn, MS	Some power lines were knocked 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 24, 5:30 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 92 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: 1509 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 0 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 241308
SVRMEM
MSC139-241345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
708 AM CST SAT NOV 24 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 745 AM CST.

* AT 705 AM CST...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER
  BLUE MOUNTAIN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM THROUGH 745 AM CST INCLUDE...
  BLUE MOUNTAIN...
  RIPLEY...DUMAS...
  FALKNER...

.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 3470 8909 3461 8908 3462 8872 3476 8872
          3491 8900

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 Nov 24, 2:30 AM CST, 4 hours 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 24, 2:30 AM CST, 4 hours 38 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
230 AM CST SAT NOV 24 2001

SEVERE WEATHER EXPECTED IN MIDSOUTH REST OF TONIGHT AND THROUGH MUCH
OF SATURDAY. STORMS NOW IN AR AND WESTERN PART OF N MS AROUND
CLARKSDALE...MOVING EAST/NORTHEAST. ALL OF CWA UNDER TOR WATCH
EXCEPT DECATUR AND HARDIN CO IN W TN AND THE TUP AREA.

.MEG...TORNADO WATCH 813 UNTIL 300 AM CST
       TORNADO WATCH 814 AND 815 UNTIL 700 CST...

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Nov 24, 5:43 AM CST, 1 hour 25 minutes before

ARZ009-018-026>028-035-036-048-049-058-MOZ113-115-MSZ001-007-010-
TNZ001-019-048-049-088-241145-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
543 AM CST SAT NOV 24 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT MEMPHIS TENNESSEE HAS CANCELLED THE
TORNADO WATCH FOR SOME COUNTIES IN NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL
ARKANSAS...THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL...WESTERNMOST COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST
MISSISSIPPI AND COUNTIES JUST EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER IN WEST
TENNESSEE.

THE COUNTIES IN ARKANSAS ARE CLAY...GREENE...CRAIGHEAD...POINSETT...
CROSS...MISSISSIPPI...ST. FRANCIS...CRITTENDEN...LEE...AND PHILLIPS.

COUNTIES IN THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL ARE DUNKLIN AND PEMISCOT.

WEST TENNESSEE COUNTIES ARE SHELBY...TIPTON...LAUDERDALE...DYER...
AND LAKE.

MISSISSIPPI COUNTIES INCLUDE DESOTO...TUNICA...AND COAHOMA.

STORMS HAVE MOVED EAST OUT THE MENTIONED COUNTIES AND THE THREAT OF
SEVERE WEATHER IS OVER.

FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION...CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT
HTTP://WWW.NWS.NOAA.GOV/SRH/MEG

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER
DETAILS OR UPDATES.

Special weather statement, Nov 24, 7:07 AM CST, 1 minute before

MSZ008-011-012-020-TNZ002-050-051-089-241300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
707 AM CST SAT NOV 24 2001

THE TORNADO WATCH FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELED...

IN WEST TENNESSEE...OBION...CROCKETT...HAYWOOD...AND FAYETTE.

IN NORTH MISSISSIPPI...TATE...PANOLA...QUITMANT...AND TALLAHATCHIE.

ALL SEVERE WEATHER HAS MOVED EAST OUT OF THE MENTIONED COUNTIES.

FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION...CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT
HTTP://WWW.NWS.NOAA.GOV/SRH/MEG

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER
DETAILS OR UPDATES.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 24, 2:43 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Coahoma, Quitman	47 min
Nov 24, 3:26 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Panola, Quitman, Tate	49 min
Nov 24, 3:49 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	DeSoto	41 min
Nov 24, 4:52 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	DeSoto	2 hr
Nov 24, 7:23 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Pontotoc, Union	37 min
Nov 24, 7:45 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tippah	30 min
Nov 24, 8:09 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Prentiss, Union	36 min
Nov 24, 8:19 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lee, Pontotoc	26 min
Nov 24, 8:43 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Alcorn, Tishomingo	32 min
Nov 24, 8:53 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Prentiss	37 min
Nov 24, 9:30 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Monroe	45 min
Nov 24, 9:46 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Itawamba	44 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.