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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 102, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 2005, 3:05 PM CDT for DeSoto County, Mississippi. It was in force for 21 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
- May 13, 2005, 3:05 PM CDT (20:05 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2005, 3:26 PM CDT
- In force
- 21 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County DeSoto County, MS
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:06 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 nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 6 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
- 239 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -153 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1486 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -36 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 May 13, 9:30 AM CDT, 5 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 13, 9:30 AM CDT, 5 hours 35 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 13, 2:12 PM CDT, 53 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 212 PM CDT FRI MAY 13 2005 TNZ088-131945- SHELBY TN- 212 PM CDT FRI MAY 13 2005 THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS FOR...SHELBY COUNTY. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR OLIVE BRANCH AT 212 PM CDT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. FREQUENT LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. THIS STORM IS NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE AND NO WARNINGS ARE ANTICIPATED. PEOPLE IN EASTERN SHELBY COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITIES OF BARTLETT...COLLIERVILLE AND GERMANTOWN...MAY BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM.
Special weather statement, May 13, 2:35 PM CDT, 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 235 PM CDT FRI MAY 13 2005 MSZ001-008-132000- DE SOTO MS-TATE MS- 235 PM CDT FRI MAY 13 2005 THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS FOR...DESOTO AND TATE COUNTIES. A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM HERNANDO TO 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SENATOBIA AT 235 PM CDT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. FREQUENT LIGHTNING...ALONG WITH GUSTY WINDS AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. THESE STORM ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE AND NO WARNINGS ARE ANTICIPATED. PEOPLE IN DESOTO AND TATE COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE CITIES OF HERNANDO...OLIVE BRANCH AND SENATOBIA...MAY BE AFFECTED BY THESE STORMS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lake | 22 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.