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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 224, NWS Memphis, TN

November 8, 2000Fayette County, Hardeman County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 8, 2000, 6:00 PM CST for Fayette County, Hardeman County, Tennessee. It was in force for 30 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Nov 8, 2000, 6:00 PM CST (00:00 UTC)
Expired: Nov 8, 2000, 6:30 PM CST
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Fayette County, TN, Hardeman County, TN

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Nov 8, 6:05 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Moscow, TN	Two mobile homes were destroyed. Twelve other homes were damaged.

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

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 62 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: 3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 411 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 70 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 450 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 481 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KMEG 090001
SVRMEM
TNC047-069-090030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
600 PM CST WED NOV 8 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  FAYETTE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE
  HARDEMAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 630 PM CST

* AT 558 PM CST...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6
  MILES SOUTHEAST OF SLAYDEN...MOVING NORTH AT 70 MPH.

* CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM THROUGH 630 PM CST INCLUDE...
  MOSCOW...
  LA GRANGE...LAGRANGE...
  SOMERVILLE...
  WHITEVILLE...
  
LAT...LON 3485 8958 3496 8933 3503 8921 3544 8901
          3545 8938

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 Nov 8, 3:40 PM CST, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 8, 3:40 PM CST, 2 hours 20 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
340 PM CST WED NOV 8 2000

TORNADO WATCH 787 IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CST FOR AREAS SOUTH OF AN E-
W LINE FROM CLARKSDALE TO TUPELO. WARM FRONT LOCATED FROM CSV-TUP-GWO
AT 21Z. SFC FRONT MOVING SLOLY TO THE NW. DEWPOINTS SOUTH OF THE
FRONT WERE IN THE LOWER 70S WITH AN UNSTABLE AIRMASS. SHEAR WAS
GREATLY ENHANCED IN THE REGION OF THE WARM FRONT.

UPR LOW MOVING ACRS WRN TX WITH DIFFLUENT FLOW ACRS THE MID SOUTH.
WATER VAPOR IMAGERY INDICATES STRONG UVV AND A GOOD DEAL OF MOISTURE
ACRS THE MID SOUTH. DEVELOPING SFC LOW WAS LOCATED OVR S LA AT 21Z.
UPR LOW WL BECOME NEGATIVELY TITLED AS IT MOVES INTO THE SRN PLAINS.
SFC LOW WL DEEPEN AND MOVE NORTH ALONG AND NEAR THE MS RIVER
OVERNIGHT. EXPECT WARM SECTOR TO COVER MUCH OF N MS AND PROBABLY MOVE
INTO W TN OVERNIGHT. TEMPS WL LIKELY RISE ACRS W TN...ESPECIALLY IN
MKL AN SURROUNDING REGIONS BEFORE DROPPING BACK LATER TONIGHT. EXPECT
FRONT TO SWEEP ACRS THE CWFA LATE TONIGHT AND EARLY TOMORROW. LOW
TEMPS WL BE TRICK ACRS ERN PARTS OF THE CWFA AS FRONTAL PASSAGE THERE
IS EXPECTED TO BE CLOSE TO 12Z. A CHANCE OF RAIN EARLY ON THURSDAY...
ESPECIALLY ACRS ERN AREAS THEN CLOUDY AND COOLER. VERY COOL AIR SET
TO MOVE INTO THE REGION THU AFTN.

LOW CLOUDS WL HANG AREA THU EVENING...ESPECIALLY ACRS MKL AREA...
BEFORE CLEARING OUT AFTER MIDNIGHT. NGM VERY COLD ON THU NIGHT WITH
NUMBER DEEP INTO THE 30S. THIS SEEMS COLD BUT TEMPS THIS AFTN WERE IN
THE UPPER 20S IN PARTS OF KS. SUNNY SKIES AND WARMING TEMPS ON FRI.
EXTENDED LOOKS DRY ATTM WITH A COOLING TREND BY MON.

.MEG...NONE.
SJM

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 8, 6:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Decatur	27 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 2000 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.