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Winter Storm Warning 1, NWS Memphis, TN
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.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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.
- 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
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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Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 29, 7:56 PM CST | Wind Advisory | MEG | Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Coahoma, DeSoto and 16 more | 3 hr |
| Jan 30, 4:07 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | MEG | Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Coahoma, DeSoto and 16 more | 32 hr |
| Jan 30, 4:13 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | MEG | Clay, Greene, Lawrence, Randolph | 12 hr |
| Jan 30, 4:07 PM CST | Heavy Snow Warning | MEG | Clay, Greene, Lawrence, Randolph | 5 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.