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Tornado Warning 101, NWS Memphis, TN

May 7, 2003Quitman County, Tallahatchie County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at May 7, 2003, 6:45 AM CDT for Quitman County, Tallahatchie County, Mississippi. It was in force for 30 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: May 7, 2003, 6:45 AM CDT (11:45 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 2003, 7:15 AM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Quitman County, MS, Tallahatchie 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
May 7, 4:55 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 88 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2657 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -55 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 897 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 172 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 158 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.6
Supercell composite: 17.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS54 KMEG 071145
TORMEM
MSC119-135-071215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
645 AM CDT WED MAY 7 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  QUITMAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI
  TALLAHATCHIE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 715 AM CDT.

* AT 640 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 12 MILES WEST OF
  TUTWILER...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO THROUGH 715 AM CDT INCLUDE...
  TUTWILER...SUMNER...
  VANCE...BRAZIL...

.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 BROADCAST FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND INFORMATION.
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY...CALL 1 800 4 3 2 0 8 7 5.

LAT...LON 3415 9049 3394 9047 3401 9002 3423 9007

The office that day

Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 6, 8:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lafayette	37 min
May 6, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Pontotoc	47 min
May 6, 9:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Pontotoc	60 min
May 6, 9:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lee	56 min
May 6, 10:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Itawamba	48 min
May 6, 10:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lee	22 min
May 6, 10:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Tishomingo	49 min
May 6, 10:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Itawamba	23 min
May 7, 6:36 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Coahoma	24 min
May 7, 7:28 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Tallahatchie	32 min
May 7, 7:54 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Yalobusha	51 min
May 7, 8:20 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Calhoun	40 min
May 7, 8:56 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Calhoun, Chickasaw	64 min
May 7, 9:37 AM CDT	Tornado Warning Emergency	MEG	Monroe	53 min
May 7, 10:23 AM CDT	Tornado Warning Emergency	MEG	Monroe	27 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.