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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Apr 30, 2002, 3:51 PM CDT for Monroe County, Mississippi. It was in force for 39 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, 3:51 PM CDT (20:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 30, 2002, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Monroe County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 4:15 PM CDT | Hail 1.25 | Becker, 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 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 168 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.
000 WFUS54 KMEG 302051 TORMEM MSC095-302130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 351 PM CDT TUE APR 30 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MONROE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 430 PM CDT. * AT 347 PM CDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 9 MILES WEST OF NEW WREN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 55 MPH. * CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO THROUGH 430 PM CDT INCLUDE... NEW WREN... AMORY... ABERDEEN... .IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. PROTECT YOUR BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS. .STAY TUNED TO THIS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROADCAST FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND INFORMATION. LAT...LON 3409 8873 3388 8872 3361 8828 3380 8814
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, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Lee | 43 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.