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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 131, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 2008, 11:42 PM CDT for Dyer County, Lake County, Obion County, Tennessee; Clay County, Arkansas. It was in force for 48 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
- Apr 3, 2008, 11:42 PM CDT (04:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 4, 2008, 12:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Clay County, AR, Dyer County, TN, Lake County, TN, Obion County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 10:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
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 Apr 3, 6:59 PM CDT, 4 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 3, 6:59 PM CDT, 4 hours 43 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Apr 4, 2:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tunica | 44 min |
| Apr 4, 2:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | DeSoto, Tunica | 54 min |
| Apr 4, 8:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Monroe | 39 min |
| Apr 4, 9:18 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Quitman | 23 hr |
| Apr 4, 9:18 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Tallahatchie | 48 hr |
| Apr 4, 9:18 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Tallahatchie | 49 hr |
| Apr 4, 9:31 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Monroe | 25 hr |
| Apr 4, 9:38 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Tate, Tunica | 22 hr |
| Apr 4, 9:38 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Quitman | 22 hr |
| Apr 4, 9:42 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Marshall, Union | 22 hr |
| Apr 4, 10:11 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Benton, DeSoto, Marshall, Tate, Tunica | 6 hr |
| Apr 4, 10:22 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Coahoma, Itawamba and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 3, 8:46 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Dyer | 20 hr |
| Apr 3, 8:46 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Dyer | 7 days |
| Apr 4, 12:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Obion, Weakley | 50 min |
| Apr 4, 1:07 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Dyer | 23 min |
| Apr 4, 9:55 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Madison | 4 days |
| Apr 4, 10:00 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Fayette, Shelby | 5 hr |
| Apr 4, 10:17 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Chester, Decatur, Fayette, Hardeman, Hardin, Haywood and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 3, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lawrence, Randolph | 53 min |
| Apr 3, 10:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Clay, Craighead, Greene, Lawrence, Randolph | 64 min |
| Apr 3, 11:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Clay, Greene, Lawrence, Randolph | 4 hr |
| Apr 4, 12:13 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Craighead, Lawrence, Poinsett | 4 hr |
| Apr 4, 12:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Cross, Poinsett | 64 min |
| Apr 4, 12:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Mississippi | 4 hr |
| Apr 4, 1:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crittenden, Cross, Mississippi, Poinsett | 38 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 2008Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 2008Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.