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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 514

July 5, 20015 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 5, 2001, 10:45 AM CDT for 5 states. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 5, 2001, 10:45 AM CDT (15:45 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2001, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 95 counties

Blount County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Colbert County, AL, Cullman County, AL, DeKalb County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Franklin County, AL, Jackson County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Lauderdale County, AL, Lawrence County, AL, Limestone County, AL, Madison County, AL, Marion County, AL, Marshall County, AL, Morgan County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Walker County, AL, Winston County, AL, Craighead County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Lee County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Phillips County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, Dade County, GA, Alcorn County, MS, Benton County, MS, Bolivar County, MS, Calhoun County, MS, Chickasaw County, MS, Clay County, MS, Coahoma County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Grenada County, MS, Itawamba County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Lee County, MS, Leflore County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Panola County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Tallahatchie County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS, Tunica County, MS, Union County, MS, Webster County, MS, Yalobusha County, MS, Bedford County, TN, Cannon County, TN, Carroll County, TN, Chester County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Crockett County, TN, Decatur County, TN, DeKalb County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Franklin County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Giles County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Hardeman County, TN, Hardin County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Henderson County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Lincoln County, TN, Madison County, TN, Marion County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Moore County, TN, Perry County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Tipton County, TN, Warren County, TN, Wayne County, TN, Williamson County, TN

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

Warnings issued inside it

37 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 5, 10:47 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Hickman, Maury, Williamson	23 min
Jul 5, 10:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lewis, Perry, Wayne	24 min
Jul 5, 11:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	DeSoto	40 min
Jul 5, 11:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Williamson	39 min
Jul 5, 11:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Marshall	27 min
Jul 5, 11:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence, Lewis, Perry, Wayne	40 min
Jul 5, 11:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Hardeman	35 min
Jul 5, 11:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford	20 min
Jul 5, 11:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Lincoln	16 min
Jul 5, 11:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Hardin, Henderson	51 min
Jul 5, 11:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles	15 min
Jul 5, 11:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Limestone, Madison	41 min
Jul 5, 11:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chester, McNairy	40 min
Jul 5, 11:54 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Lincoln	36 min
Jul 5, 12:00 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Lawrence, Wayne	3 hr
Jul 5, 12:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford	23 min
Jul 5, 12:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles	21 min
Jul 5, 12:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lauderdale	46 min
Jul 5, 12:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Wayne	3 hr
Jul 5, 12:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Limestone, Madison	51 min
Jul 5, 12:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Giles	3 hr
Jul 5, 12:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tishomingo	42 min
Jul 5, 12:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jackson	56 min
Jul 5, 12:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marshall, Morgan	53 min
Jul 5, 12:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Colbert, Lauderdale	47 min
Jul 5, 1:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Limestone, Madison	3 hr
Jul 5, 1:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lawrence	44 min
Jul 5, 1:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Morgan	26 min
Jul 5, 1:57 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Morgan	3 hr
Jul 5, 2:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cullman	51 min
Jul 5, 2:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Winston	43 min
Jul 5, 2:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Blount	49 min
Jul 5, 2:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Walker	38 min
Jul 5, 2:39 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Marshall	3 hr
Jul 5, 3:00 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Lawrence	3 hr
Jul 5, 3:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	St. Clair, Shelby	44 min
Jul 5, 3:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Calhoun, Cleburne, Talladega	49 min

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 109 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: 2461 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1228 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 52 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.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 5, 2:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Autauga, Bibb, Bullock, Calhoun, Chambers, Chilton and 25 more	4 hr
Jul 5, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Benton, Campbell, Carroll, Cheatham, Clay, Davidson and 18 more	5 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Tennessee, 2001 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Mississippi, 2001 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Alabama, 2001 Every severe thunderstorm watch 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.