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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Memphis, TN

April 27, 2000Fayette County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 27, 2000, 5:21 PM CDT for Fayette County, Tennessee. It was in force for 29 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 27, 2000, 5:21 PM CDT (22:21 UTC)
Expired: Apr 27, 2000, 5:50 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Fayette County, TN

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:20 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 27, 1:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr
Apr 27, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 275 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1903 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KMEG 272220
SVRMEM
TNC047-272250-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
521 PM CDT THU APR 27 2000


THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  FAYETTE COUNTY IN WESTERN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 550 PM CDT

* AT 517 PM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
  WITH LARGE HAIL 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF SOMERVILLE... MOVING EAST AT
  35 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  LACONIA BY 525 PM
  RIRAL EASTERN FAYETTE COUNTY THROUGH 550 PM  .

.WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT ZUSE TELEPHONES OR
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.


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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 27, 2:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 27, 2:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
250 PM CDT THU APR 27 2000

RADAR IS INDICATING A FEW THUNDERSTORMS BEGINNING TO MOVE INTO THE
NORTHERN PART OF THE FORECAST AREA. ACTIVITY IS MOVING TO THE EAST
WITH SOME SOUTHWARD DEVELOPMENT OF THE LINE. BELIEVE THAT ONCE THE
LINE MOVES OUT OF THE FORECAST AREA...THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL END.
WILL INCLUDE A LATE AFTERNOON PERIOD MENTIONING A CHANCE OF
THUNDERSTORMS AND THEN GO WITH A DRY FORECAST FOR TONIGHT. HIGH
PRESSURE WILL MOVE IN GIVING US A DRY AND PLEASANT WEEKEND. FWC
TEMPERATURES APPEAR TOO HIGH FOR FRIDAY AND GENERALLY WENT BELOW
THOSE NUMBERS.

PRELIMINARY NUMBERS
MEM 53/77/54/78 000
MKL 47/75/48/76 000
JBR 48/77/49/77 000
TUP 51/76/52/78 000

.MEM...NONE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 27, 4:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Weakley	32 min
Apr 27, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Hardeman	32 min
Apr 27, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	McNairy	33 min
Apr 27, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Hardin	34 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.