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Tornado Warning 112, NWS Memphis, TN

May 8, 2003Carroll County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at May 8, 2003, 1:41 PM CDT for Carroll County, Tennessee. It was in force for 64 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 8, 2003, 1:41 PM CDT (18:41 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 2003, 2:45 PM CDT
In force: 64 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), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:45 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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 8, 10:25 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 174 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: 360 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -84 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 628 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 107 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 196 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMEG 081841
TORMEM
TNC017-081945-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
141 PM CDT THU MAY 8 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 245 PM CDT.

* AT 139 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 8 MILES WEST OF
  ATWOOD...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  ATWOOD AROUND 150 PM CDT
  TREZEVANT AROUND 155 PM CDT
  MCLEMORESVILLE AROUND 200 PM CDT
  MIDDLE FORK AROUND 205 PM CDT
  MCKENZIE AROUND 210 PM CDT
  HUNTINGDON AROUND 220 PM CDT

.IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IN AN INTERIOR
ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. PROTECT YOUR BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

.IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT.

.STAY TUNED TO THIS BROADCAST FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND INFORMATION.
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY...CALL 1 800 4 3 2 0 8 7 5.

LAT...LON 3610 8871 3585 8870 3587 8823 3616 8822
          3613 8864

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 8, 11:30 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Dyer	60 min
May 8, 11:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lake	41 min
May 8, 12:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Dyer	35 min
May 8, 12:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Crockett, Gibson	60 min
May 8, 1:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Gibson	11 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.