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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 266, NWS Memphis, TN

May 26, 2008Obion County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2008, 5:27 AM CDT for Obion County, Tennessee. It was in force for 15 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 26, 2008, 5:27 AM CDT (10:27 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 2008, 5:42 AM CDT
In force
15 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Obion County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 230 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2008-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2008-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 9 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1937 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
71 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 26, 3:29 AM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 3:29 AM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 26, 4:57 AM CDT, 30 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 1:07 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMEGAlcorn, Prentiss, Tishomingo113 min
May 26, 2:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMEGPrentiss, Tishomingo3 hr
May 26, 4:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGItawamba42 min
May 26, 5:26 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMEGPrentiss, Tishomingo109 min
May 26, 11:18 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMEGCarroll, Henderson, Madison117 min
May 26, 12:24 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMEGCarroll, Decatur, Henderson5 hr
May 26, 12:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGDecatur, Hardin, McNairy46 min
May 26, 12:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCarroll, Gibson, Weakley46 min
May 26, 1:29 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMEGMadison3 hr
May 26, 1:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGChester, Madison30 min
May 26, 3:08 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMEGChester, Decatur, Hardin, Henderson, McNairy3 hr
May 26, 4:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGHardeman40 min
May 26, 5:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGHaywood, Lauderdale, Tipton52 min
May 26, 6:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGHaywood, Madison42 min
May 26, 6:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGChester, Hardeman, Madison38 min
May 26, 6:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMadison20 min
May 25, 9:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLawrence47 min
May 25, 9:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCraighead52 min
May 26, 4:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGPoinsett52 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.