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Tornado Warning 105, NWS Memphis, TN

October 26, 2010Itawamba County, Monroe County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Oct 26, 2010, 3:02 PM CDT for Itawamba County, Monroe County, Mississippi. It was in force for 15 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: Oct 26, 2010, 3:02 PM CDT (20:02 UTC)
Expired: Oct 26, 2010, 3:17 PM CDT
In force: 15 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Itawamba County, MS, Monroe County, MS

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:02 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
Oct 26, 11:42 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 163 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: 732 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 78 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -172 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 42 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 tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Oct 26, 2:25 PM CDT, 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 26, 2:25 PM CDT, 37 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 26, 12:58 PM CDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Oct 26, 9:14 AM CDT, 5 hours 48 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
914 AM CDT TUE OCT 26 2010

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

0700 AM     NON-TSTM WND GST MILLINGTON              35.33N 89.89W
10/26/2010  E60.00 MPH       SHELBY             TN   COUNTY OFFICIAL

            NUMEROUS TREES DOWN IN SOUTHERN TIPTON AND NORTHERN
            SHELBY CO.

0715 AM     TSTM WND DMG     OBION                   36.26N 89.19W
10/26/2010                   OBION              TN   EMERGENCY MNGR

            BETWEEN 715 AND 730 AM CDT SEVERAL ROOFS DAMAGED OR EVEN
            BLOWN OFF. POWER LINES DOWN. 1 VEHICLE THROWN 30 FEET
            FROM YARD. SHED BLOWN INTO ROAD. 1 GRAIN ELEVATOR
            TWISTED. ALL DAMAGE OCCURRED IN THE 1600 TO 1700 BLOCKS
            OF PALESTINE ROAD AND MAIN STREET.

&&

MRM

Local storm report, Oct 26, 10:10 AM CDT, 4 hours 52 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
1010 AM CDT TUE OCT 26 2010

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

0700 AM     NON-TSTM WND GST MILLINGTON              35.33N 89.89W
10/26/2010  E60.00 MPH       SHELBY             TN   COUNTY OFFICIAL

            NUMEROUS TREES DOWN IN SOUTHERN TIPTON AND NORTHERN
            SHELBY CO.

0715 AM     TSTM WND DMG     OBION                   36.26N 89.19W
10/26/2010                   OBION              TN   EMERGENCY MNGR

            BETWEEN 715 AND 730 AM CDT SEVERAL ROOFS DAMAGED OR EVEN
            BLOWN OFF. POWER LINES DOWN. 1 VEHICLE THROWN 30 FEET
            FROM YARD. SHED BLOWN INTO ROAD. 1 GRAIN ELEVATOR
            TWISTED. ALL DAMAGE OCCURRED IN THE 1600 TO 1700 BLOCKS
            OF PALESTINE ROAD AND MAIN STREET.

0957 AM     FUNNEL CLOUD     7 SW SENATOBIA          34.55N 90.06W
10/26/2010                   PANOLA             MS   FIRE DEPT/RESCUE

1004 AM     FUNNEL CLOUD     3 SW SENATOBIA          34.59N 90.01W
10/26/2010                   TATE               MS   FIRE DEPT/RESCUE

            FUNNEL CLOUD 3 MILES SW OF SENATOBIA MOVING NORTHEAST.
            ALSO ROTATION OF STORM.

&&

TLSJR

Local storm report, Oct 26, 10:59 AM CDT, 4 hours 3 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 26, 2:04 PM CDT, 58 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
Oct 26, 8:58 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Henry	32 min
Oct 26, 9:32 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Carroll, Henry	28 min
Oct 26, 9:41 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Hardin, McNairy	34 min
Oct 26, 9:59 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Carroll	16 min
Oct 26, 10:04 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Decatur, Hardin	26 min
Oct 26, 10:13 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Fayette, Hardeman	47 min
Oct 26, 10:16 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Hardin, McNairy	44 min
Oct 26, 10:17 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Carroll, Decatur, Henderson	43 min
Oct 26, 10:39 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Hardin	21 min
Oct 26, 9:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	DeSoto, Tate, Tunica	39 min
Oct 26, 9:43 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	DeSoto, Marshall, Tate	32 min
Oct 26, 9:50 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Alcorn, Prentiss, Tippah	40 min
Oct 26, 9:57 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	DeSoto, Marshall, Tate	33 min
Oct 26, 7:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Cross, St. Francis	42 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Mississippi, 2010 Every tornado warning in 2010 Tornadoes 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.