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Tornado Warning 70, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at May 5, 2003, 7:48 PM CDT for Weakley County, Tennessee. It was in force for 27 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 5, 2003, 7:48 PM CDT (00:48 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2003, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Weakley County, TN
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 5, 2:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 186 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1533 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 824 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 91 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMEG 060048 TORMEM TNC183-060115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 747 PM CDT MON MAY 5 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN WEAKLEY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TENNESSEE * UNTIL 815 PM CDT. * AT 745 PM CDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTH OF GREENFIELD...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED NEAR BRADFORD. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... GLEASON AROUND 805 PM CDT * CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO THROUGH 815 PM CDT INCLUDE... GLEASON... .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. .STAY TUNED TO THIS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROADCAST FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND INFORMATION. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY...CALL 1 800 4 3 2 0 8 7 5. LAT...LON 3618 8891 3607 8871 3612 8851 3628 8852
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 7:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Gibson | 33 min |
| May 5, 7:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Carroll | 56 min |
| May 5, 7:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Dyer | 113 min |
| May 5, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Gibson | 45 min |
| May 5, 8:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Dyer, Obion | 29 min |
| May 5, 8:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Henry | 2 hr |
| May 6, 1:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette, Shelby | 52 min |
| May 6, 4:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Hardeman, McNairy | 2 hr |
| May 6, 4:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Fayette, Shelby | 2 hr |
| May 6, 5:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Hardin | 118 min |
| May 6, 6:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Hardeman, McNairy | 95 min |
| May 6, 6:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Hardin | 66 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.