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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 163, NWS Memphis, TN

June 27, 2001Obion County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2001, 1:50 PM CDT for Obion County, Tennessee. It was in force for 55 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
Jun 27, 2001, 1:50 PM CDT (18:50 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 2001, 2:45 PM CDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Obion County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 185 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, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2001-06-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1429 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, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2001-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 25 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1429 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1344 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
70 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.

NWS Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 27, 11:35 AM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 11:35 AM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
1135 AM CDT WED JUN 27 2001

A DEFINED UPPER LOW WAS STILL SPINNING JUST N OF THE FCST AREA. THIS
SYSTEM WILL BE STATIONARY THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. SCT TSTMS OCCURRED
OVER MAINLY THE SRN HALF OF THE FCST AREA THIS MORNING...BUT ARE
NOW MORE CONCENTRATED IN EXTREME SOUTH CENTRAL PART OF THE FCST AREA.
EXPECT MORE SCT TSTMS TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON...ESPECIALLY IN
AREAS WHICH HAD PLENTY OF SUN.

HAVE UPDATED ZONES EARLIER...AND PLAN ON UPDATING AGAIN BEFORE NOON
TO ADJUST FOR CLOUD COVERAGE AND THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT.

.MEG...NONE.

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 7:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLee37 min
Jun 27, 5:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCoahoma47 min
Jun 27, 5:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCoahoma31 min
Jun 27, 7:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCoahoma32 min
Jun 27, 12:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGHenry, Weakley34 min
Jun 27, 1:09 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGDyer51 min
Jun 27, 1:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGWeakley57 min
Jun 27, 2:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGHenry46 min
Jun 27, 3:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGDyer38 min
Jun 27, 5:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGSt. Francis38 min
Jun 27, 5:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGSt. Francis46 min
Jun 27, 7:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGSt. Francis30 min
Jun 27, 8:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGPhillips35 min
Jun 27, 1:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGGreene54 min
Jun 27, 1:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMississippi32 min
Jun 27, 2:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCraighead, Greene52 min
Jun 27, 3:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMississippi48 min
Jun 27, 3:43 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGMississippi47 min
Jun 27, 3:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGPoinsett47 min
Jun 27, 4:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMississippi43 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.