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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 318, NWS Memphis, TN

July 13, 2003Carroll County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 2003, 4:45 AM CDT for Carroll County, Tennessee. It was in force for 45 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
Jul 13, 2003, 4:45 AM CDT (09:45 UTC)
Expired
Jul 13, 2003, 5:30 AM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Carroll County, TN

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:49 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 nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 167 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2003-07-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 89 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2003-07-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -30 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
89 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-167 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1585 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
11 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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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 Jul 13, 3:30 AM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 13, 3:30 AM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 13, 3:33 AM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
333 AM CDT SUN JUL 13 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST ARKANSAS...NORTH
MISSISSIPPI...WEST TENNESSEE AND THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER
DETAILS OR UPDATES. FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION...CHECK OUR
WEB SITE AT HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/MEG.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 13, 11:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGPrentiss36 min
Jul 13, 12:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGUnion31 min
Jul 13, 12:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGPrentiss25 min
Jul 13, 12:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLee, Prentiss, Union27 min
Jul 13, 12:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGPontotoc25 min
Jul 13, 1:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGTippah24 min
Jul 13, 1:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGTate32 min
Jul 13, 2:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGItawamba, Lee33 min
Jul 13, 2:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGTippah, Union39 min
Jul 13, 2:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGPanola, Quitman, Tunica40 min
Jul 13, 3:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMarshall, Union43 min
Jul 13, 3:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGBenton33 min
Jul 13, 3:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLafayette49 min
Jul 13, 4:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMarshall45 min
Jul 13, 4:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGTippah47 min
Jul 13, 4:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGDeSoto, Marshall50 min
Jul 13, 5:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGDeSoto, Marshall37 min
Jul 13, 5:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGYalobusha35 min
Jul 13, 5:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGPanola49 min
Jul 13, 5:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGTallahatchie49 min
Jul 13, 5:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGYalobusha35 min
Jul 13, 6:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGDeSoto42 min
Jul 13, 6:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGTallahatchie30 min
Jul 13, 6:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGTunica49 min
Jul 13, 2:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCarroll, Gibson, Weakley47 min
Jul 13, 4:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGHardin53 min
Jul 13, 4:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGFayette46 min
Jul 13, 4:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGChester, McNairy30 min
Jul 13, 4:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGHardin32 min
Jul 13, 2:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLawrence46 min
Jul 13, 3:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLawrence45 min
Jul 13, 3:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGRandolph21 min
Jul 13, 3:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGGreene, Lawrence, Randolph47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003

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.