Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 353, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 2003, 7:47 PM CDT for Tallahatchie County, Yalobusha 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 13, 2003, 7:47 PM CDT (00:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 2003, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Tallahatchie County, MS, Yalobusha County, MS
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 430 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -276 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1987 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jul 13, 4:46 PM CDT, 3 hours 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 13, 4:46 PM CDT, 3 hours 1 minute before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 446 PM CDT SUN JUL 13 2003 CURRENTLY...SFC ANALYSIS IS A MESS THIS AFTN WITH ONGOING CONVECTION. TSTMS DEVELOPED EARLIER THIS AFTN ALONG AN OUTFLOW BNDRY FROM THIS MORNINGS MCS ACROSS AR. WHERE PRECIP HAS NOT OCCURRED THIS AFTN TEMPS HAVE RISEN TO AROUND 90..OTHERWISE TEMPS HAVE COOLED TO AROUND 70. EXPECT CONVECTION TO CONT FOR A FEW HOURS AFTER SS AND THEN BEGIN TO DISSIPATE WITH LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING. THE UPR TROF OVR THE ERN STATES WILL LIFT OUT DURING THE NEXT 24 HRS WHILE THE UPR HI OVR THE SW STATES BUILDS EWD TWD THE CNTRL PLAINS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. SMALL IMPULSES WILL CONT TO SINK SWD ON THE ERN PERIPHERY OF THE UPR HIGH. WILL MENTION CHC POPS ON MONDAY OVR THE SRN ZNS WHERE AN UPR LVL SHEAR AXIS WILL BE PRESENT. AS THE UPR HI BUILDS INTO THE REGION WILL GO WITH SCHC POPS FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK...MAINLY AFTN TIME FRAME. THE GFS DROPS A WEAK FNT INTO THE FA TUE NITE INTO WED AND THEN KEEPS WEAK LO PRES OVR THE AREA THRU THU MORNING. AM NOT SURE THIS WILL HAVE A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT WITH THE UPR HI BUILDING EWD. AN INVERTED TROF SETS UP ACROSS THE REGION BY SUN SO WILL INCLUDE POPS FOR THEN. WILL GO WITH PERSISTENCE ON TEMPS. .MEG...NONE.
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 13, 4:03 PM CDT, 3 hours 44 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>092-141000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 403 PM CDT SUN JUL 13 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST ARKANSAS...NORTH MISSISSIPPI...WEST TENNESSEE AND THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT SCATTERED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE EVENING WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE PRIMARY THREAT. THE GREATEST THREAT WILL BE OVER NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE EACH DAY EXCEPT SATURDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY FOR TONIGHT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tunica | 47 min |
| Jul 13, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Panola, Quitman | 39 min |
| Jul 13, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee, Phillips | 42 min |
| Jul 13, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | St. Francis | 37 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003
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.