Severe Thunderstorm Warning 234, NWS Memphis, TN

Issued

Oct 24, 2001, 6:21 PM CDT (23:21 UTC)

Expired

Oct 24, 2001, 7:00 PM CDT

In force

39 min

Issued by

NWS Memphis, TN

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Chester County, TN, Henderson County, TN

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

NWS Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Oct 24, 3:40 PM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
340 PM CDT WED OCT 24 2001

THE STRONG COLD FRONT CURRENTLY APPROACHING OUR NW COUNTIES WILL
MOVE THROUGH THE ENTIRE CWA FROM NOW THROUGH LATE EVENING. A LINE OF
TSTMS WILL FOLLOW THE FRONT FROM W TO E THROUGH THE EVENING. EXPECT
AN ABRUPT DROP IN TEMPS BEHIND THE FRONT LATER TNT.

THE REST OF THE FCST PERIOD LOOKS DRY WITH COOLER THAN NORMAL TEMPS.

PRELIM VALUES
MEM 47/63/38/63 5000
MKL 44/60/33/60 8000
JBR 43/61/35/62 1000
TUP 49/65/36/62 5000

.MEG...WIND ADVISORY ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

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

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.