Alert archive / Mississippi / Special Weather Statements in 2012
Special Weather Statement, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this special weather statement at Jul 8, 2012, 1:21 PM CDT for Tippah County, Mississippi. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 2012, 1:21 PM CDT (18:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2012, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
County Tippah County, MS
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:23 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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 108 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
- 1410 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -123 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1335 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
178
WWUS84 KMEG 081821
SPSMEG
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
121 PM CDT SUN JUL 8 2012
MSZ004-009-081900-
TIPPAH MS-PRENTISS MS-
121 PM CDT SUN JUL 8 2012
...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 200 PM CDT FOR...
NORTHWESTERN PRENTISS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...
SOUTHEASTERN TIPPAH COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING WINDS AT LEAST 40 MPH WAS LOCATED 5
MILES EAST OF DUMAS AT 121 PM CDT...MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH.
VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE
ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.
PEOPLE IN PRENTISS AND TIPPAH COUNTIES SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM
CLOSELY.
&&
LAT...LON 3475 8888 3476 8871 3463 8868 3460 8873
3460 8883
TIME...MOT...LOC 1821Z 165DEG 5KT 3464 8875
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tate, Tunica | 25 min |
| Jul 7, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | DeSoto | 41 min |
| Jul 7, 9:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Yalobusha | 24 min |
| Jul 7, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Panola, Yalobusha | 48 min |
| Jul 8, 4:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Alcorn, Prentiss, Tishomingo | 34 min |
| Jul 8, 5:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Alcorn, Prentiss, Tippah | 35 min |
| Jul 8, 1:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Lee | 53 min |
| Jul 8, 1:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Prentiss | 23 min |
| Jul 8, 2:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Alcorn | 27 min |
| Jul 7, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lauderdale, Tipton | 19 min |
| Jul 7, 8:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Haywood | 36 min |
| Jul 7, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Haywood, Lauderdale, Tipton | 25 min |
| Jul 7, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Henry, Weakley | 45 min |
| Jul 8, 4:22 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Weakley | 23 min |
| Jul 8, 2:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Randolph | 34 min |
| Jul 8, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Randolph | 29 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.