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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 22, 2020, 11:04 PM CDT for 5 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 41 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
- Mar 22, 2020, 11:04 PM CDT (04:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 2020, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
Counties Lafayette County, MS, Panola County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tunica County, MS
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 42 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 504 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Mar 22, 9:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 22, 9:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 22, 4:05 AM CDT, 18 hours 59 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Memphis TN 405 AM CDT Sun Mar 22 2020 ARZ009-018-026>028-035-036-048-049-058-MOZ113-115-MSZ001>017- 020>024-TNZ001>004-019>022-048>055-088>092-231100- Alcorn-Benton MS-Benton TN-Calhoun-Carroll-Chester-Chickasaw-Clay- Coahoma-Craighead-Crittenden-Crockett-Cross-DeSoto-Decatur- Dunklin-Dyer-Fayette-Gibson-Greene-Hardeman-Hardin-Haywood- Henderson-Henry-Itawamba-Lafayette-Lake-Lauderdale-Lee AR-Lee MS- Madison-Marshall-McNairy-Mississippi-Monroe-Obion-Panola-Pemiscot- Phillips-Poinsett-Pontotoc-Prentiss-Quitman-Shelby-St. Francis- Tallahatchie-Tate-Tippah-Tipton-Tishomingo-Tunica-Union-Weakley- Yalobusha- 405 AM CDT Sun Mar 22 2020 This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of East Arkansas... the Missouri Bootheel...North Mississippi...and West Tennessee. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday Severe thunderstorms are possible across the Mid-South Tuesday into Tuesday evening. Damaging winds appear to be the primary hazard. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be requested Tuesday afternoon and evening.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 11:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Lafayette | 29 min |
| Mar 23, 12:20 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Lafayette, Pontotoc, Union | 40 min |
| Mar 23, 12:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Panola | 31 min |
| Mar 23, 1:02 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Prentiss, Tishomingo, Union | 43 min |
| Mar 23, 1:03 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Lafayette | 42 min |
| Mar 23, 1:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Marshall, Panola | 35 min |
| Mar 23, 1:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Benton, Lafayette, Marshall, Tippah, Union | 21 min |
| Mar 23, 2:06 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Prentiss, Union | 24 min |
| Mar 23, 3:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Monroe | 38 min |
| Mar 23, 4:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Monroe | 20 min |
| Mar 23, 6:14 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Tallahatchie | 6 days |
| Mar 23, 10:53 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Tate, Tunica | 9 hr |
| Mar 23, 11:01 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Tallahatchie | 3 days |
| Mar 23, 11:01 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Marshall, Union | 11 hr |
| Mar 23, 11:01 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Monroe | 5 days |
| Mar 23, 11:01 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Lowndes, Monroe | 5 days |
| Mar 23, 11:59 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Monroe | 57 hr |
| Mar 22, 11:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Hardeman | 24 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.