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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 384, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2008, 6:21 PM CDT for Panola County, Quitman County, Tunica County, Mississippi. It was in force for 24 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
- Aug 3, 2008, 6:21 PM CDT (23:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2008, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Panola County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Tunica County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 51 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
- 3040 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -130 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1333 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 199 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 8.0
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 Aug 3, 2:54 PM CDT, 3 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 2:54 PM CDT, 3 hours 27 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 3, 2:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Aug 3, 3:04 PM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 304 PM CDT SUN AUG 3 2008 MSZ020-032030- TALLAHATCHIE MS- 304 PM CDT SUN AUG 3 2008 ...THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS FOR... CENTRAL TALLAHATCHIE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING PEA TO DIME SIZE HAIL AND 40 TO 50 MPH WINDS WAS LOCATED 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHARLESTON AT 304 PM CDT...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 20 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM IS INTENSIFYING AND COULD BECOME SEVERE RAPIDLY. PEOPLE IN TALLAHATCHIE COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITY OF CHARLESTON... SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY..
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 3:38 PM CDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 338 PM CDT SUN AUG 3 2008 MSZ020-032115- TALLAHATCHIE MS- 338 PM CDT SUN AUG 3 2008 ...THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS FOR... SOUTHERN TALLAHATCHIE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING PEA TO DIME SIZE HAIL AND 40 TO 50 MPH WINDS WAS LOCATED 7 MILES WEST OF PAYNES AT 338 PM CDT...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM IS INTENSIFYING AND COULD BECOME SEVERE RAPIDLY. PEOPLE IN TALLAHATCHIE COUNTY SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY..
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 5:02 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 502 PM CDT SUN AUG 3 2008 MSZ012-032230- PANOLA MS- 502 PM CDT SUN AUG 3 2008 ...THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS FOR... PANOLA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING PEA TO DIME SIZE HAIL AND 40 TO 50 MPH WINDS WAS LOCATED OVER COMO AT 502 PM CDT...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM IS INTENSIFYING AND COULD BECOME SEVERE RAPIDLY. PEOPLE IN PANOLA COUNTY SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY..
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 5:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 505 PM CDT SUN AUG 3 2008 MSZ001-007-008-032230- DE SOTO MS-TUNICA MS-TATE MS- 505 PM CDT SUN AUG 3 2008 ...THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS FOR... SOUTHWESTERN DESOTO COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI... NORTHWESTERN TATE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI... NORTHEASTERN TUNICA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING PEA TO DIME SIZE HAIL AND 40 TO 50 MPH WINDS WAS LOCATED OVER EUDORA AT 505 PM CDT...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 11 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM IS INTENSIFYING AND COULD BECOME SEVERE RAPIDLY. PEOPLE IN DESOTO...TATE AND TUNICA COUNTIES SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY..
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Pontotoc, Union | 50 min |
| Aug 2, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chickasaw | 45 min |
| Aug 2, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Panola | 48 min |
| Aug 2, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Lafayette, Pontotoc, Union | 45 min |
| Aug 2, 8:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Pontotoc, Union | 2 hr |
| Aug 2, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Calhoun | 40 min |
| Aug 2, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Lafayette, Yalobusha | 25 min |
| Aug 2, 9:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Lafayette | 2 hr |
| Aug 2, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Lafayette, Yalobusha | 47 min |
| Aug 2, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Yalobusha | 47 min |
| Aug 3, 4:12 AM CDT | Excessive Heat Warning | MEG | Coahoma, DeSoto, Panola, Quitman, Tallahatchie, Tate and 2 more | 24 hr |
| Aug 3, 3:44 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MEG | Tallahatchie | 91 min |
| Aug 3, 3:46 PM CDT | Heat Advisory | MEG | Alcorn, Prentiss, Tishomingo | 13 hr |
| Aug 3, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | DeSoto, Tate, Tunica | 51 min |
| Aug 3, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Coahoma, Tunica | 47 min |
| Aug 3, 6:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Tunica | 2 hr |
| Aug 3, 6:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Phillips | 39 min |
| Aug 3, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee, Phillips | 38 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 2008Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008
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.