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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Memphis, TN

April 27, 2000Hardin County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 27, 2000, 5:56 PM CDT for Hardin County, Tennessee. It was in force for 34 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, 5:56 PM CDT (22:56 UTC)
Expired: Apr 27, 2000, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Hardin County, TN

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, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 177 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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KMEG 272256
SVRMEM
TNC071-272330-

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


THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 554 PM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
  WITH LARGE HAIL NEAR SAVANNAH MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  LOCATIONS ALONG HIGHWAY 64 EAST OF SAVANNAH THROUGH 630 PM
  OLIVEHILL BY 620 PM

.IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK REFUGE FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAjIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY
INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.


 
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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, 3 hours 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 27, 2:50 PM CDT, 3 hours 6 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, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Fayette	29 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

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.