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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 164, NWS Memphis, TN

May 2, 2010Itawamba County, Lee County, Monroe County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2010, 4:46 PM CDT for Itawamba County, Lee County, Monroe County, Mississippi. It was in force for 34 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 2, 2010, 4:46 PM CDT (21:46 UTC)
Expired: May 2, 2010, 5:20 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Itawamba County, MS, Lee County, MS, Monroe County, MS

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 152 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: 67 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -89 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 580 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 83 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -97 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 1 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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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 2, 3:26 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 2, 3:26 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 2, 3:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 2, 12:04 PM CDT, 4 hours 42 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 2, 4:14 PM CDT, 32 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 2, 4:15 PM CDT, 31 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 2, 4:18 PM CDT, 28 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 2, 4:40 PM CDT, 6 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 2, 4:43 PM CDT, 3 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 1, 7:48 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Madison	6 days
May 1, 9:28 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Chester, Decatur, Hardeman, Hardin, Henderson, McNairy and 1 more	119 min
May 1, 9:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Shelby	66 min
May 1, 10:10 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Hardeman	7 days
May 1, 10:19 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Crockett, Haywood, Lauderdale, Tipton	3 hr
May 1, 10:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Shelby, Tipton	50 min
May 1, 10:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Dyer, Lake, Obion	41 min
May 1, 10:38 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Carroll, Dyer, Gibson, Henry, Lake, Obion and 1 more	3 hr
May 1, 10:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Dyer, Lake, Obion	48 min
May 1, 10:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Fayette, Haywood, Lauderdale, Shelby, Tipton	47 min
May 1, 11:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Dyer, Lake, Obion	32 min
May 1, 11:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Crockett, Dyer, Haywood, Lauderdale	45 min
May 2, 12:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Dyer, Lake	42 min
May 2, 12:19 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lake, Obion	41 min
May 2, 12:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Dyer, Lauderdale	42 min
May 2, 12:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Dyer, Gibson, Lake, Obion	42 min
May 2, 12:51 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lake, Obion	39 min
May 2, 12:58 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Dyer, Lake, Obion	47 min
May 2, 1:06 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Lauderdale, Tipton	81 min
May 2, 1:09 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Fayette, Shelby	36 min
May 2, 1:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Dyer, Gibson, Lake, Obion, Weakley	51 min
May 2, 1:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crockett, Haywood, Lauderdale, Tipton	44 min
May 2, 1:35 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Obion, Weakley	40 min
May 2, 1:40 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Dyer, Gibson, Lake, Obion, Weakley	3 hr
May 2, 1:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Fayette, Shelby	50 min
May 2, 1:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crockett, Haywood, Lauderdale, Tipton	47 min
May 2, 2:09 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Crockett, Gibson, Haywood, Madison	40 min
May 2, 2:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Fayette, Hardeman, Haywood, Madison	46 min
May 2, 2:32 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Carroll, Gibson, Henry	58 min
May 2, 2:34 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Hardeman	41 min
May 2, 3:01 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Chester, Hardeman, McNairy	51 min
May 2, 3:28 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Chester, Decatur, Hardin, Henderson, McNairy	47 min
May 2, 3:30 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Chester, Fayette, Hardeman, McNairy	6 hr
May 2, 3:33 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Hardeman	42 min
May 2, 3:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Fayette, Shelby	32 min
May 2, 3:59 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Carroll, Chester, Decatur, Hardeman, Hardin, Henderson and 2 more	10 hr
May 2, 4:01 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Decatur, Hardin, Henderson	44 min
May 2, 5:26 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Decatur, Hardeman, Hardin, McNairy	12 hr
May 2, 5:41 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Carroll, Gibson, Henderson, Henry, Weakley	74 min
May 2, 8:25 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Decatur, Perry	11 days
May 2, 10:31 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Hardeman, McNairy	4 hr
May 2, 10:51 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Lauderdale, Tipton	6 hr
May 2, 12:05 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Hardin	6 hr
May 2, 2:04 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	MEG	Chester, Decatur, Hardeman, Hardin, Henderson, McNairy	12 hr
May 2, 4:45 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Lauderdale, Tipton	7 days
May 1, 7:48 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Monroe	5 days
May 1, 7:48 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Monroe	67 hr
May 1, 7:48 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Lowndes, Monroe	5 days
May 1, 8:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Calhoun, Chickasaw	39 min
May 1, 9:11 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Tate, Tunica	81 min
May 1, 9:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Tunica	47 min
May 2, 1:36 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lafayette, Panola	39 min
May 2, 2:04 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Benton, Marshall	41 min
May 2, 2:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Panola, Quitman, Tallahatchie	44 min
May 2, 3:09 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lafayette, Marshall, Panola, Tate	36 min
May 2, 3:40 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Lafayette, Marshall, Union	63 hr
May 2, 3:40 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Tate, Tunica	43 hr
May 2, 4:06 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	DeSoto, Lafayette, Marshall, Panola, Quitman, Tallahatchie and 2 more	6 hr
May 2, 4:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Coahoma, Panola, Quitman, Tallahatchie	44 min
May 2, 5:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lafayette, Marshall, Panola, Quitman, Tate	45 min
May 2, 7:16 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Benton, Calhoun, Lafayette, Marshall, Pontotoc, Tallahatchie and 3 more	6 hr
May 2, 8:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Panola, Quitman, Tallahatchie, Yalobusha	51 min
May 2, 9:59 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Lafayette, Marshall, Panola, Tallahatchie, Tate, Yalobusha	4 hr
May 2, 11:41 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Calhoun, Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe, Pontotoc and 1 more	6 hr
May 2, 5:20 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	MEG	Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe, Pontotoc, Union	12 hr
May 2, 6:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Monroe	30 min
May 1, 8:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lawrence, Randolph	43 min
May 1, 8:22 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Lawrence, Randolph	5 hr
May 1, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead, Cross, Greene, Lawrence, Poinsett	53 min
May 1, 8:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Cross, St. Francis	42 min
May 1, 8:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lee, Phillips	53 min
May 1, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lawrence, Randolph	50 min
May 1, 8:58 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Craighead, Cross, Poinsett	3 hr
May 1, 9:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Cross, Poinsett	38 min
May 1, 9:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead, Greene, Lawrence, Poinsett	50 min
May 1, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Clay, Greene, Lawrence, Randolph	47 min
May 1, 9:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Clay, Greene	3 hr
May 1, 9:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Craighead, Mississippi, Poinsett	52 min
May 1, 10:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Clay, Greene, Mississippi	42 min
May 1, 10:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Mississippi	50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 2010 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2010

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.