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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 327, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 2008, 3:02 PM CDT for Marshall County, Mississippi. It was in force for 30 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
- Jul 9, 2008, 3:02 PM CDT (20:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2008, 3:32 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Marshall County, MS
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 73 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 nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 42 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
- 1441 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1231 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 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 Jul 9, 2:46 PM CDT, 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 2:46 PM CDT, 16 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 9, 1:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 136 PM CDT WED JUL 9 2008 MSZ002-013-091915- MARSHALL MS-LAFAYETTE MS- 136 PM CDT WED JUL 9 2008 ...THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS FOR... NORTHERN LAFAYETTE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI... SOUTHERN MARSHALL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING PEA TO DIME SIZE HAIL AND 40 TO 50 MPH WINDS WAS LOCATED 3 MILES SOUTH OF HARMONTOWN AT 136 PM CDT... MOVING EAST AT 16 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. PEOPLE IN LAFAYETTE AND MARSHALL COUNTIES SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY. THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 215 PM CDT.
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 1:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 137 PM CDT WED JUL 9 2008 MSZ022-091900- CALHOUN MS- 137 PM CDT WED JUL 9 2008 ...THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS FOR... NORTHERN CALHOUN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING PEA TO DIME SIZE HAIL AND 40 TO 50 MPH WINDS WAS LOCATED OVER BANNER AT 137 PM CDT...MOVING EAST AT 4 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. PEOPLE IN CALHOUN COUNTY SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY. THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 PM CDT.
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 2:06 PM CDT, 56 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 206 PM CDT WED JUL 9 2008 TNZ089-091945- FAYETTE TN- 206 PM CDT WED JUL 9 2008 ...THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS FOR... SOUTHERN FAYETTE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING PEA TO DIME SIZE HAIL AND 40 TO 50 MPH WINDS WAS LOCATED 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SOMERVILLE AT 206 PM CDT...MOVING EAST AT 22 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. PEOPLE IN FAYETTE COUNTY SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY. THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 245 PM CDT.
Local storm report, Jul 9, 2:38 PM CDT, 24 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
238 PM CDT WED JUL 09 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0125 PM TSTM WND DMG 4 W HUGHES 34.95N 90.54W
07/09/2008 ST. FRANCIS AR LAW ENFORCEMENT
TWO MOBILE HOMES DAMAGED AND ONE OVERTURNED ALONG HIGHWAY
38 EAST AT COUNTY ROAD 753 WEST OF HUGHES. TREES AND
POWERLINES DOWN COUNTYWIDE.
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JKT/CMLSpecial weather statement, Jul 9, 2:46 PM CDT, 16 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 1:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | DeSoto | 50 min |
| Jul 9, 2:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | DeSoto | 59 min |
| Jul 9, 1:06 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MEG | Carroll, Henderson, Madison | 84 min |
| Jul 9, 1:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Decatur | 26 min |
| Jul 9, 2:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Hardin | 44 min |
| Jul 9, 1:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crittenden, St. Francis | 42 min |
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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.