Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 31, 2001, 5:02 PM CST for DeSoto County, Mississippi. It was in force for 28 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 31, 2001, 5:02 PM CST (23:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2001, 5:30 PM CST
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County DeSoto County, MS
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:02 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 31, 5:08 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Hernando, 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 nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 6 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
- 634 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 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 312310 CCA SVRMEM MSC033-312330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTION FOR STATE LOCATION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 502 PM CST SAT MAR 31 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN DESOTO COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 530 PM CST. * AT 456 PM CST...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER HERNANDO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. AT 457 PM...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED TREES DOWN AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL IN HERNANDO. * CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM THROUGH 530 PM CST INCLUDE... LEWISBURG...OLIVE BRANCH...INGRAMS MILL .DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. .STAY TUNED TO THIS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROADCAST FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND INFORMATION. LAT...LON 3493 9003 3476 900W1 3476 8969 3500 8970
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 Mar 31, 3:30 PM CST, 1 hour 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 31, 3:30 PM CST, 1 hour 32 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 330 PM CST SAT MAR 31 2001 HAIL STORMS NOW GETTING READY TO ENTER W CWA...BEEN A REPORT OF SEVERE HAIL IN WHITE COUNTY AR...JUST UPSTREAM FROM US. STORMS ARE AHEAD OF A FRONT FROM STL TO ARG TO LIT TO TXK. THIS FRONT WILL SAG ON SOUTHEAST THROUGH THE MIDSOUTH THIS EVENING. ABOUT 7 TO 10 DEGREES COOLER TNGHT THAN LAST NIGHT. NEXT SIGNIFICANT ROUND OF SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORMS TO OCCUR NEXT WED. .MEG...NONE.
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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.