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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 30, 2002, 3:32 PM CDT for Itawamba County, Lee County, Mississippi. It was in force for 43 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 30, 2002, 3:32 PM CDT (20:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 30, 2002, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Itawamba County, MS, Lee County, MS
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
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, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 129 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.
847 WUUS54 KMEG 302032 SVRMEM MSC057-081-302115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 331 PM CDT TUE APR 30 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ITAWAMBA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI LEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 415 PM CDT. * AT 329 PM CDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER BLAIR...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. AT 325 PM...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED DIME SIZE HAIL IN NORTHERN LEE COUNTY. * CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM THROUGH 415 PM CDT INCLUDE... SALTILLO...GUNTOWN... PRATTS FRIENDSHIP... MANTACHIE... FULTON... .STAY TUNED TO THIS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROADCAST FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND INFORMATION. LAT...LON 3455 8876 3440 8888 3414 8847 3433 8832
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 Apr 30, 2:04 AM CDT, 13 hours 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 30, 2:04 AM CDT, 13 hours 28 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 204 AM CDT TUE APR 30 2002 A BROAD RIDGE OVER THE SOUTHERN STATES FROM COAST TO COAST WILL GRADUALLY SHIFT EASTWARD THIS FORECAST PERIOD. SHORT WAVES AND IMPULSES WILL RIDE OVER THE RIDGE ACROSS THE CENTRAL PLAINS TO THE SOUTHEAST. AT THE SURFACE A STATIONARY FRONT DRAPED ACROSS THE GULF COAST STATES WILL MOVE NORTHWARD AS A WARM FRONT AND BE NORTH OF THE MID SOUTH BY TONIGHT. WITH SUFFICIENT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE IN PLACE AND WITH THE HELP OF THE UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES THE FRONT WILL BE THE FOCUS OF THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY OVER THE MID SOUTH. MEANWHILE A SURFACE LOW OVER WEST TEXAS THIS MORNING WILL MOVE EASTWARD AND BE CENTERED OVER NORTHEAST ARKANSAS BY LATE WEDNESDAY. THE RESULT WILL BE WARM HUMID WEATHER WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING TONIGHT AND MAINLY NORTH PORTIONS OF THE MID SOUTH WEDNESDAY. .MEG...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 30, 2:13 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
MSZ007-TNZ001>004-019>021-051-054-055-301959- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 213 PM CDT TUE APR 30 2002 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 188 HAS BEEN REPLACED BY SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 189 FOR PORTIONS OF WEST TENNESSEE AND NORTH MISSISSIPPI... THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE NO LONGER UNDER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN WEST TENNESSEE... LAKE...OBION...WEAKLEY...HENRY...DYER...GIBSON...CARROLL... CROCKETT...HENDERSON...AND DECATUR. IN NORTH MISSISSIPPI... TUNICA FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION...CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/MEG.
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, 11:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Panola, Tate | 20 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, 3:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Monroe | 39 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.