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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Memphis, TN

February 10, 2020Calhoun County, Chickasaw County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 10, 2020, 2:09 AM CST for Calhoun County, Chickasaw County, Mississippi. It was in force for 27 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
Feb 10, 2020, 2:09 AM CST (08:09 UTC)
Expired
Feb 10, 2020, 2:36 AM CST
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
50.0 mph

Counties Calhoun County, MS, Chickasaw County, MS

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:09 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

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 199 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jackson, MS at 00:00Z on 2020-02-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jackson, MS at 00:00Z on 2020-02-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 73 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1619 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
219 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 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 Feb 9, 11:37 PM CST, 2 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 9, 11:37 PM CST, 2 hours 32 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 10, 2:58 AM CSTSpecial Weather StatementMEGChickasaw, Itawamba47 min
Feb 10, 3:11 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGChickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe, Tishomingo36 min
Feb 10, 7:36 AM CSTAreal Flood AdvisoryMEGLee3 hr
Feb 10, 10:04 AM CSTAreal Flood AdvisoryMEGCalhoun, Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe3 hr
Feb 10, 10:12 AM CSTRiver Flood WarningMEGLafayette, Marshall, Union4 days
Feb 10, 10:12 AM CSTRiver Flood WarningMEGCalhoun29 hr
Feb 10, 12:54 PM CSTAreal Flood AdvisoryMEGCalhoun, Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe, Pontotoc3 hr
Feb 10, 3:41 PM CSTAreal Flood WarningMEGCalhoun, Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe, Pontotoc and 1 more6 hr
Feb 10, 10:12 AM CSTRiver Flood WarningMEGCrockett, Dyer, Lauderdale8 days
Feb 10, 2:13 AM CSTSpecial Weather StatementMEGPhillips47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 2020Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2020

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.