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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 13, 2000, 8:25 PM CST for Shelby County, Tennessee. It was in force for 15 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
- Feb 13, 2000, 8:25 PM CST (02:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 13, 2000, 8:40 PM CST
- In force
- 15 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Shelby County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:26 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 8:32 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Memphis, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 8:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 40 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
- 624 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1332 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 262 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 5.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMEM 140226 SVRMEM TNC157-140240- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 825 PM CST SUN FEB 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SHELBY COUNTY IN WESTERN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 840 PM CST * AT 822 PM CST... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AND SPOTTERS REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DIME SIZE HAIL OVER MEMPHIS... MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... GERMANTOWN AROUND 830 PM CST CORDOVA AROUND 830 PM CST .A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 7:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Shelby | 32 min |
| Feb 13, 8:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette | 33 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.