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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 313, NWS Memphis, TN

May 9, 2006Lee County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2006, 3:38 PM CDT for Lee County, Mississippi. It was in force for 52 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: May 9, 2006, 3:38 PM CDT (20:38 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 2006, 4:30 PM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lee County, MS

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:38 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 nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 131 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: 1109 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -120 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 657 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 164 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 211 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.8

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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 May 9, 3:00 PM CDT, 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 9, 3:00 PM CDT, 38 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 9, 3:37 PM CDT, 1 minute before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
337 PM CDT TUE MAY 9 2006

ARZ008-009-017-018-026>028-035-036-048-049-058-MOZ113-115-
MSZ001>017-020>024-TNZ001>004-019>021-048>055-088>092-102245-
ALCORN-BENTON(MS)-CALHOUN-CARROLL-CHESTER-CHICKASAW-CLAY-COAHOMA-
CRAIGHEAD-CRITTENDEN-CROCKETT-CROSS-DESOTO-DECATUR-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-
336 PM CDT TUE MAY 9 2006

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE WEATHER ACROSS THE ENTIRE MID-
SOUTH TONIGHT.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH MISSISSIPPI COULD PRODUCE HAIL
AND DAMAGING WINDS UNTIL SUNSET THIS EVENING.

AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP OVER OKLAHOMA AND KANSAS
LATER THIS EVENING...AND COULD REACH EAST ARKANSAS BY SUNRISE.
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE AGAIN WITH THESE
STORMS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER ACROSS THE ENTIRE
MID SOUTH ON WEDNESDAY. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THEMID SOUTHH
DURING THE DAYTIME HOURS. THE AIRMASS WILL BE VERY MOIST AND
UNSTABLE. UPPER LEVEL WINDS WILL BE VERY FAVORABLE FOR THE
DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE WEATHER. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE
LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS.

THE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER EASTERN ARKANSAS DURING
THE LATE MORNING HOURS...AND WILL MOVE INTO WEST TENNESSEE AND
NORTH MISSISSIPPI DURING THE EARLY AFTERNOON. ANY SEVERE WEATHER
SHOULD MOVE OUT OF THE MID-SOUTH AREA BY SUNSET WEDNESDAY EVENING.

AFTER WEDNESDAY...NO WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS ANTICIPATED.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT...AND LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS FOR SEVERE WEATHER OPERATIONS IS POSSIBLE
TONIGHT...AND LIKELY ON WEDNESDAY.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 9, 2:40 PM CDT, 58 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 9, 2:48 PM CDT, 50 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 9, 2:51 PM CDT, 47 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 9, 3:01 PM CDT, 37 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 9, 3:16 PM CDT, 22 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 9, 3:34 PM CDT, 4 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 9, 11:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lake, Obion	30 min
May 9, 12:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tipton	26 min
May 9, 1:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Shelby	39 min
May 9, 1:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Hardeman	43 min
May 9, 2:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Hardeman, McNairy	40 min
May 9, 3:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Hardin	28 min
May 9, 1:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tate	42 min
May 9, 2:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, Tippah	43 min
May 9, 2:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Panola, Quitman	22 min
May 9, 2:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Marshall	44 min
May 9, 2:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Alcorn	45 min
May 9, 2:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lafayette	36 min
May 9, 3:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Pontotoc, Union	51 min
May 9, 3:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Alcorn, Prentiss, Tishomingo	39 min
May 9, 3:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Monroe	51 min
May 9, 3:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Itawamba	40 min
May 9, 10:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lawrence	35 min
May 9, 10:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Clay, Greene	44 min
May 9, 10:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead, Lawrence	50 min
May 9, 11:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Mississippi	52 min
May 9, 12:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Cross, St. Francis	48 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 2006 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006

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.