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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 249, NWS Memphis, TN

June 26, 2009Dyer County, Lake County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2009, 1:27 PM CDT for Dyer County, Lake County, Tennessee. It was in force for 31 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
Jun 26, 2009, 1:27 PM CDT (18:27 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 2009, 1:58 PM CDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Dyer County, TN, Lake County, TN

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:29 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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 256 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 12:00Z on 2009-06-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1347 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 12:00Z on 2009-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 96 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1347 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1149 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
96 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
3.7

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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 Jun 26, 1:01 PM CDT, 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 1:01 PM CDT, 26 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 26, 1:21 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
121 PM CDT FRI JUN 26 2009

MOZ115-TNZ001-261900-
PEMISCOT MO-LAKE TN-
121 PM CDT FRI JUN 26 2009

...THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS FOR...

  SOUTHWESTERN LAKE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TENNESSEE...
  NORTHERN PEMISCOT COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...

A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING PEA SIZE HAIL AND 40 TO 50 MPH WINDS
WAS LOCATED 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WARDELL AT 121 PM CDT...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

VERY HEAVY RAIN IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.

PEOPLE IN LAKE AND PEMISCOT COUNTIES...INCLUDING LOCATIONS NEAR
CARUTHERSVILLE AND HAYTI...SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY THIS
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 PM CDT.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 3:17 AM CDTHeat AdvisoryMEGAlcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Coahoma, DeSoto and 16 more61 hr
Jun 26, 3:54 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMEGDyer, Lauderdale2 hr
Jun 26, 4:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGDyer, Lauderdale34 min
Jun 26, 4:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLauderdale30 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 2009Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2009

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.