Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 30, 2002, 11:25 AM CDT for Panola County, Tate County, Mississippi. It was in force for 20 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 30, 2002, 11:25 AM CDT (16:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 30, 2002, 11:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 20 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Panola County, MS, Tate County, MS
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 11:40 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | New Town, MS | Several trees 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 10:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 32 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
- 956 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 700 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 278 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 335 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
044 WUUS54 KMEG 301625 SVRMEM MSC107-137-301645- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1125 AM CDT TUE APR 30 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEAST PANOLA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI SOUTHEAST TATE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 1145 AM CDT. * AT 1120 AM CDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF COMO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM THROUGH 1145 AM CDT INCLUDE... GLENVILLE... .LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...MOVE TO A STURDY SHELTER .STAY TUNED TO THIS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROADCAST FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND INFORMATION. LAT...LON 3467 8989 3452 9000 3438 8973 3455 8960
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 7:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tunica | 49 min |
| Apr 30, 7:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Panola | 46 min |
| Apr 30, 7:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | DeSoto | 50 min |
| Apr 30, 9:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | DeSoto | 33 min |
| Apr 30, 11:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lafayette | 41 min |
| Apr 30, 11:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Pontotoc, Union | 29 min |
| Apr 30, 12:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee, Pontotoc | 24 min |
| Apr 30, 12:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee, Monroe | 28 min |
| Apr 30, 1:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Monroe | 29 min |
| Apr 30, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | DeSoto, Marshall | 22 min |
| Apr 30, 2:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Benton, Marshall, Tippah | 49 min |
| Apr 30, 2:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lafayette | 28 min |
| Apr 30, 3:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Pontotoc | 29 min |
| Apr 30, 3:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee, Union | 23 min |
| Apr 30, 3:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Chickasaw, Pontotoc | 52 min |
| Apr 30, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Lee | 43 min |
| Apr 30, 3:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Monroe | 39 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002
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.