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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Memphis, TN

April 1, 2005Lee County, Monroe County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 1, 2005, 12:03 PM CST for Lee County, Monroe County, Mississippi. It was in force for 27 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: Apr 1, 2005, 12:03 PM CST (18:03 UTC)
Expired: Apr 1, 2005, 12:30 PM CST
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Lee County, MS, Monroe County, MS

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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 1, 11:45 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 150 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1375 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 248 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 1, 11:56 AM CST, 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 1, 11:56 AM CST, 7 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
1156 AM CST FRI APR 1 2005

.UPDATE...

HAVE ISSUED ANOTHER ZONE UPDATE TO INCLUDE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WATCH FOR PORTION OF NE MISSISSIPPI. CONTINUE TO TRACK SURFACE
WARM FRONT WHICH EXTENDS FROM ITAWAMBA TO CHICKASAW COUNTIES IN
THE MEMPHIS CWA...JUST SOUTH OF TUPELO. SURFACE BASED CONVECTION A
DISTINCT POSSIBILITY IN THE WARM SECTOR AS THE REGION CONTINUES TO
EXPERIENCE LARGE SCALE ASCENT FROM THE UPPER LOW OVER ARKANSAS.
SOME ELEVATED STORMS POSSIBLE JUST TO THE NORTH OF THE WARM FRONT.
LARGE HAIL WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT WITH THESE STORMS.

&&

.MEG WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
AR...NONE.
MO...NONE.
MS...NONE.
TN...NONE.

&&

JFB

Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 1, 11:05 AM CST, 58 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
1105 AM CST FRI APR 1 2005

ARZ008-009-017-018-026>028-035-036-048-049-058-MOZ113-115-MSZ001>017-
020>024-TNZ001>004-019>021-048>055-088>092-021100-
ALCORN-BENTON-CALHOUN-CARROLL-CHESTER-CHICKASAW-CLAY-COAHOMA-
CRAIGHEAD-CRITTENDEN-CROCKETT-CROSS-DECATUR-DESOTO-DUNKLIN-DYER-
FAYETTE-GIBSON-GREENE-HARDEMAN-HARDIN-HAYWOOD-HENDERSON-HENRY-
ITAWAMBA-LAFAYETTE-LAKE-LAUDERDALE-LAWRENCE-LEE(AR)-LEE(MS)-MADISON-
MARSHALL-MCNAIRY-MISSISSIPPI-MONROE-OBION-PANOLA-PEMISCOT-PHILLIPS-
POINSETT-PONTOTOC-PRENTISS-QUITMAN-RANDOLPH-SHELBY-ST. FRANCIS-
TALLAHATCHIE-TATE-TIPPAH-TIPTON-TISHOMINGO-TUNICA-UNION-WEAKLEY-
YALOBUSHA-
1105 AM CST FRI APR 1 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST ARKANSAS...NORTH
MISSISSIPPI...WEST TENNESSEE AND THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL.

.DAY ONE...

AN UPPER LEVEL LOW WILL TRAVERSE ACROSS THE MIDSOUTH TODAY. AS A
RESULT...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED. DUE TO THE COLD
NATURE OF THE UPPER LOW...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SOME OF THE
STORMS BECOMING SEVERE WITH HAIL AS THE MAIN THREAT. THE BEST
CHANCE OF HAIL WILL OCCUR SOUTH OF THE INTERSTATE 40 CORRIDOR.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...

ANOTHER UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE AND ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT WILL MOVE
ACROSS THE AREA NEXT TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY. A FEW STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS WEATHER SYSTEM.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

WHILE WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED...STORM SPOTTERS
SHOULD MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND RELAY ANY HAIL
REPORTS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

JFB

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 1, 10:38 AM CST, 1 hour 25 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
1038 AM CST FRI APR 1 2005

ARZ036-TNZ088-011730-

CRITTENDEN AR-SHELBY TN-
1038 AM CST FRI APR 1 2005

THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS FOR...CRITTENDEN AND SHELBY
COUNTIES.

A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM 6 MILES WEST OF
CRAWFORDSVILLE TO 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WHITEHAVEN AT 1038 AM
CST...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. LAW ENFORCEMENT NEAR WEST MEMPHIS
REPORTED GUSTY WINDS UP TO 30 MPH AND PEA TO DIME SIZE HAIL.

THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE GUSTY
WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO BE MONITORED AND
MAY BECOME SEVERE.

PEOPLE IN CRITTENDEN AND SHELBY COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE CITIES OF
BARTLETT...COLLIERVILLE...GERMANTOWN...MARION...MILLINGTON AND WEST
MEMPHIS...SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY.

Special weather statement, Apr 1, 10:45 AM CST, 1 hour 18 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
1045 AM CST FRI APR 1 2005

MSZ013-011715-

LAFAYETTE MS-
1045 AM CST FRI APR 1 2005

THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS FOR...LAFAYETTE COUNTY.

A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF BURGESS AT
1045 AM CST...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL
HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE PEA TO DIME SIZE HAIL ALONG WITH GUSTY
WINDS.

THIS STORM IS INTENSIFYING AND COULD BECOME SEVERE RAPIDLY.

PEOPLE IN LAFAYETTE COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITY OF OXFORD...SHOULD
MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY.

Local storm report, Apr 1, 12:02 PM CST, 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
1202 PM CST FRI APR 01 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1149 AM     HAIL             7 S HOUSTON             33.79N 89.00W
04/01/2005  0.88 INCH        CHICKASAW          MS   EMERGENCY MNGR

1159 AM     HAIL             6 E HOUSTON             33.90N 88.90W
04/01/2005  1.00 INCH        CHICKASAW          MS   EMERGENCY MNGR

&&

DSV

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 1, 10:51 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lafayette, Marshall	24 min
Apr 1, 11:12 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton	33 min
Apr 1, 11:37 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chickasaw	38 min
Apr 1, 12:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Itawamba	43 min
Apr 1, 12:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tishomingo	92 min
Apr 1, 1:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Monroe	94 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.