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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 195, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 7, 2002, 1:21 AM CDT for Tippah County, Mississippi. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 7, 2002, 1:21 AM CDT (06:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 7, 2002, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tippah County, MS
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:23 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 2366 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1166 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
792 WUUS54 KMEG 070621 SVRMEM MSC139-070700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 121 AM CDT MON OCT 7 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... TIPPAH COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 200 AM CDT. * AT 118 AM CDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST OF WALNUT...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM THROUGH 200 AM CDT INCLUDE... FALKNER...RIPLEY... WALNUT... .DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...MOVE INDOORS. .STAY TUNED TO THIS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROADCAST FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND INFORMATION.
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 Oct 6, 8:50 PM CDT, 4 hours 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 6, 8:50 PM CDT, 4 hours 31 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 850 PM CDT SUN OCT 6 2002 COLD FRONT CURRENTLY MOVING THROUGH WEST TENNESSEE INTO EAST ARKANSAS. RADAR INDICATES SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY AT THIS TIME WITH A LARGER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS OFF TO THE WEST IN CENTRAL AND WESTERN ARKANSAS. WILL NOT MAKE ANY CHANGES TO FORECAST AT THIS TIME UNTIL IT APPEARS THAT RAIN COVERAGE IS DECREASING. .MEG...NONE
Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 6, 4:22 AM CDT, 20 hours 59 minutes before
ARZ008-009-017-018-026>028-035-036-048-049-058-MOZ113-115-MSZ001>017- 020>024-TNZ001>004-019>021-048>055-088>092-070900- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 422 AM CDT SUN OCT 6 2002 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST ARKANSAS...NORTH MISSISSIPPI...WEST TENNESSEE AND THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL. .DAY ONE... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 6, 10:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Coahoma, Quitman | 3 hr |
| Oct 7, 12:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Marshall | 31 min |
| Oct 7, 12:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Benton | 40 min |
| Oct 7, 1:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Alcorn | 41 min |
| Oct 7, 3:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Monroe | 37 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.