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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 174, NWS Memphis, TN

June 26, 2024Itawamba County, Monroe County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2024, 2:03 PM CDT for Itawamba County, Monroe County, Mississippi. It was in force for 20 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: Jun 26, 2024, 2:03 PM CDT (19:03 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 2024, 2:23 PM CDT
In force: 20 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

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 19:07 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

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 182 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: 246 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -123 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1846 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 18 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 Jun 25, 6:50 PM CDT, 19 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 6:50 PM CDT, 19 hours 13 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
Jun 26, 2:06 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Henry	24 min
Jun 26, 8:21 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Lake	24 min
Jun 26, 9:09 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Lake	36 min
Jun 26, 9:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lake, Obion	17 min
Jun 26, 9:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Obion	30 min
Jun 26, 10:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Lake, Obion	45 min
Jun 26, 10:32 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Lake, Obion	3 hr
Jun 26, 12:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Shelby, Tipton	46 min
Jun 26, 1:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Chester	35 min
Jun 26, 1:39 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Fayette, Shelby	70 min
Jun 26, 3:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Benton, Henry, Weakley	43 min
Jun 26, 4:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Henry	24 min
Jun 26, 10:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Marshall	38 min
Jun 26, 11:06 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Tate	24 min
Jun 26, 11:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Benton	34 min
Jun 26, 11:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Tate	30 min
Jun 26, 11:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Tippah	32 min
Jun 26, 12:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Alcorn, Prentiss	35 min
Jun 26, 1:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	DeSoto, Quitman, Tate, Tunica	45 min
Jun 26, 1:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Monroe	25 min
Jun 26, 1:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Monroe	31 min
Jun 26, 2:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Lafayette, Marshall	31 min
Jun 26, 2:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Itawamba	37 min
Jun 26, 2:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Lafayette, Yalobusha	32 min
Jun 26, 2:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Lee	24 min
Jun 26, 3:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Lee	47 min
Jun 26, 3:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Calhoun, Pontotoc	44 min
Jun 26, 3:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Alcorn, Prentiss	37 min
Jun 26, 12:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Clay	25 min
Jun 26, 12:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Clay	31 min
Jun 26, 2:24 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Greene	36 min
Jun 26, 3:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Mississippi	31 min
Jun 26, 3:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead, Poinsett	19 min
Jun 26, 11:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Cross, Poinsett, St. Francis	31 min
Jun 26, 11:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Crittenden, Cross, Mississippi, St. Francis	47 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.