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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 290, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 4, 2006, 2:37 AM CDT for Shelby County, Tennessee. It was in force for 23 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 4, 2006, 2:37 AM CDT (07:37 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 2006, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Shelby County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 40 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
- 1667 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1142 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
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 3, 7:38 PM CDT, 6 hours 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 3, 7:38 PM CDT, 6 hours 59 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 738 PM CDT WED MAY 3 2006 .DISCUSSION... THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOPED OVER THE MIDSOUTH THIS AFTERNOON HAVE BEEN SHOWING SIGNS OF WEAKENING OVER THE PAST HOUR. THE LINE OF STORMS FROM THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL TO CHERRY VALLEY IN NORTHEAST ARKANSAS WAS STILL ACTIVE. GOOD CONVERGENCE ALONG THE LOW LEVEL BOUNDARY AS SEEN ON VISIBLE SATELLITE AND THE CENTER OF THE MCV MOVING ACROSS THIS AREA HAS ALLOWED THESE STORMS TO PERSIST. WITH LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING...THE STORMS ARE SUBSIDING ACROSS THE MIDSOUTH. THE POSSIBILITY OF ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE FOR THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL CONTINUE OVER MIDDLE TENNESSEE WHERE THE BETTER INSTABILITY HAS SHIFTED. LATE TONIGHT ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE MIDSOUTH. && .MEG WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...NONE. MO...NONE. MS...NONE. TN...NONE. && AC
Hazardous weather outlook, May 3, 9:04 PM CDT, 5 hours 33 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 3, 8:51 PM CDT, 5 hours 46 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 851 PM CDT WED MAY 3 2006 MSZ006-017-040215- TISHOMINGO MS-ITAWAMBA MS- 851 PM CDT WED MAY 3 2006 THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS FOR...ITAWAMBA AND TISHOMINGO COUNTIES. A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PEA TO DIME SIZE HAIL WAS LOCATED FROM 5 MILES EAST OF TISHOMINGO TO 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FULTON AT 851 PM CDT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE AND NO WARNINGS ARE ANTICIPATED. PEOPLE IN ITAWAMBA AND TISHOMINGO COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE CITY OF FULTON...SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY.
Special weather statement, May 3, 9:15 PM CDT, 5 hours 22 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chester, McNairy | 23 min |
| May 3, 9:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Cross, Poinsett | 89 min |
| May 3, 10:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lawrence, Randolph | 53 min |
| May 4, 1:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Poinsett | 35 min |
| May 4, 1:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | St. Francis | 21 min |
| May 4, 1:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crittenden | 29 min |
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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006
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.