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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Memphis, TN

April 8, 2024Tallahatchie County, Yalobusha County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 8, 2024, 11:24 AM CDT for Tallahatchie County, Yalobusha County, Mississippi. It was in force for 51 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
Apr 8, 2024, 11:24 AM CDT (16:24 UTC)
Expired
Apr 8, 2024, 12:15 PM CDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Tallahatchie County, MS, Yalobusha County, MS

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:26 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, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 93 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, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2024-04-08Temperature 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, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2024-04-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 31 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
3204 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
150 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 Apr 8, 10:18 AM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 8, 10:18 AM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
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In the hours before

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Local storm report, Apr 8, 10:33 AM CDT, 51 minutes before
Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Memphis TN
1033 AM CDT Mon Apr 8 2024

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

0620 PM     Tstm Wnd Dmg     4 WNW Gates             35.86N 89.47W
04/07/2024                   Lauderdale         TN   Public

            Trees down along Needmore Road East.

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 7, 7:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLauderdale, Tipton46 min
Apr 7, 7:17 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMEGShelby28 min
Apr 7, 7:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGShelby38 min
Apr 7, 7:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGFayette, Shelby, Tipton46 min
Apr 7, 7:49 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMEGShelby56 min
Apr 7, 7:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGShelby49 min
Apr 7, 7:58 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMEGShelby32 min
Apr 7, 8:08 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMEGObion37 min
Apr 7, 8:34 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMEGFayette26 min
Apr 7, 10:53 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMEGGibson37 min
Apr 7, 11:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCarroll, Gibson, Henry, Weakley38 min
Apr 7, 11:45 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMEGHenry15 min
Apr 8, 12:05 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMEGHenderson25 min
Apr 8, 5:42 AM CDTDense Fog AdvisoryMEGBenton, Carroll, Crockett, Dyer, Gibson, Henry and 5 more3 hr
Apr 8, 4:03 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMEGHardeman27 min
Apr 8, 4:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatMEGChester, Hardeman, Madison46 min
Apr 8, 4:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGFayette, Hardeman, Shelby41 min
Apr 8, 4:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCarroll, Chester, Gibson, Hardeman, Henderson, Madison44 min
Apr 8, 5:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatMEGFayette, Hardeman, Haywood, Madison36 min
Apr 8, 5:29 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMEGCarroll, Henderson31 min
Apr 8, 5:39 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMEGMadison36 min
Apr 8, 5:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGBenton, Carroll, Decatur, Henderson, Henry47 min
Apr 8, 6:13 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMEGGibson32 min
Apr 8, 6:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGBenton, Carroll, Henry29 min
Apr 8, 6:37 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMEGGibson23 min
Apr 8, 6:56 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMEGHenry34 min
Apr 7, 8:11 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMEGTunica34 min
Apr 7, 8:45 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMEGMarshall30 min
Apr 7, 9:31 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMEGTunica29 min
Apr 8, 4:12 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMEGCoahoma, Panola, Quitman, Tallahatchie3 hr
Apr 8, 5:43 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMEGPontotoc47 min
Apr 8, 11:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGTallahatchie, Yalobusha10 min
Apr 8, 1:03 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMEGCalhoun27 min
Apr 8, 1:32 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMEGCalhoun, Chickasaw28 min
Apr 8, 3:00 PM CDTFlood WatchMEGAlcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Coahoma, DeSoto and 16 more64 hr
Apr 8, 4:12 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMEGMarshall33 min
Apr 7, 8:56 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMEGLee34 min
Apr 8, 4:17 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMEGLee28 min

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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.