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Winter Storm Warning 1, NWS Memphis, TN

January 30, 20089 counties in Tennessee; 8 counties in Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this winter storm warning at Jan 30, 2008, 4:07 PM CST for 9 counties in Tennessee; 8 counties in Arkansas. It took effect at Jan 30, 2008, 9:23 PM CST. It was in force for 19 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 30, 2008, 4:07 PM CST (22:07 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 30, 2008, 9:23 PM CST
Expired
Jan 31, 2008, 3:54 PM CST
In force
19 hr
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN

Counties Clay County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Cross County, AR, Greene County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, Randolph County, AR, Carroll County, TN, Crockett County, TN, Dyer County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Henry County, TN, Lake County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Obion County, TN, Weakley County, TN

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:10 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 372 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2008-01-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2008-01-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -2 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
1609 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
75 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-127 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 winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Jan 30, 3:57 PM CST, 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 30, 3:57 PM CST, 10 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 29, 7:56 PM CSTWind AdvisoryMEGAlcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Coahoma, DeSoto and 16 more3 hr
Jan 30, 4:07 PM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryMEGAlcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Coahoma, DeSoto and 16 more32 hr
Jan 30, 4:13 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchMEGClay, Greene, Lawrence, Randolph12 hr
Jan 30, 4:07 PM CSTHeavy Snow WarningMEGClay, Greene, Lawrence, Randolph5 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in Tennessee, 2008Winter Storm Warnings in Arkansas, 2008Every winter storm 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.