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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Memphis, TN

January 18, 1996Weakley County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 18, 1996, 9:57 AM CST for Weakley County, Tennessee. It was in force for 33 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jan 18, 1996, 9:57 AM CST (15:57 UTC)
Expired
Jan 18, 1996, 10:30 AM CST
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Weakley County, TN

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:57 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jan 18, 10:05 AM CSTThunderstorm WindDresden, TN

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 191 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1996-01-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 42 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1996-01-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 395 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
42 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-182 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
742 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
395 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
588 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jan 18, 6:16 AM CST, 3 hours 41 minutes before
TNZ001>102-181815-

TENNESSEE SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
613 AM CST (713 AM EST) THU JAN 18 1996

...SEVERE WEATHER EXPECTED OVER WEST AND SECTIONS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE
TODAY...

A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL BE MOVING INTO WEST TENNESSEE DURING LATE
MORNING..AND IS FORECAST TO REACH THE NASHVILLE AREA TOWARD
EVENING.

NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THE COLD FRONT..AND SOME OF
THESE ARE EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE..WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL.
FOLLOWING FRONTAL PASSAGE..THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT ENDS..BUT
BLUSTERY CONDITIONS WILL THEN PREVAIL AS WINDS WILL
REMAIN STRONG AND TEMPERATURES WILL PLUNGE.

IN SUMMARY..PERSONS LIVING OVER WEST AND MIDDLE SECTIONS OF TENNESSEE
SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR  SEVERE WEATHER TODAY BY MONITORING NOAA WEATHER
RADIO..OR COMMERCIAL RADIO AND TELEVISION.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 17, 8:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGDeSoto, Marshall30 min
Jan 17, 8:49 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGMarshall26 min
Jan 18, 8:45 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGDeSoto, Marshall30 min
Jan 18, 8:49 AM CSTTornado WarningMEGMarshall26 min
Jan 18, 10:55 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGItawamba, Lee, Prentiss35 min
Jan 18, 10:55 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGTishomingo35 min
Jan 18, 11:26 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGItawamba, Tishomingo34 min
Jan 18, 8:18 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGShelby42 min
Jan 18, 8:34 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGHaywood, Lauderdale, Tipton56 min
Jan 18, 8:36 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGFayette54 min
Jan 18, 8:41 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGDyer, Lake, Obion49 min
Jan 18, 9:17 AM CSTTornado WarningMEGFayette, Haywood43 min
Jan 18, 6:42 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGPoinsett48 min
Jan 18, 6:57 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGRandolph48 min
Jan 18, 7:14 AM CSTTornado WarningMEGLawrence46 min
Jan 18, 7:16 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGSt. Francis44 min
Jan 18, 7:23 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCraighead52 min
Jan 18, 7:28 AM CSTTornado WarningMEGPoinsett47 min
Jan 18, 7:44 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCrittenden46 min
Jan 18, 8:08 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMississippi52 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.