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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 211, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 2010, 4:39 PM CDT for Hardin County, McNairy County, Tennessee. It was in force for 25 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 23, 2010, 4:39 PM CDT (21:39 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2010, 5:04 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Hardin County, TN, McNairy County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:43 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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 1248 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -121 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1008 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 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 May 23, 3:06 PM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 23, 3:06 PM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 23, 3:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 327 PM CDT SUN MAY 23 2010 TNZ003-232100- WEAKLEY TN- 327 PM CDT SUN MAY 23 2010 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 400 PM CDT FOR... NORTHEASTERN WEAKLEY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TENNESSEE... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING PEA SIZE HAIL OR LARGER AND WINDS AT LEAST 40 MPH WAS LOCATED 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF LATHAM AT 327 PM CDT... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH. DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. PEOPLE IN WEAKLEY COUNTY SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY.
Special weather statement, May 23, 4:04 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 404 PM CDT SUN MAY 23 2010 TNZ091-232130- MCNAIRY TN- 404 PM CDT SUN MAY 23 2010 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR... CENTRAL MCNAIRY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING PEA SIZE HAIL OR LARGER AND WINDS AT LEAST 40 MPH WAS LOCATED 3 MILES NORTH OF SELMER AT 404 PM CDT. THE STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. VERY HEAVY RAIN IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. PEOPLE IN MCNAIRY COUNTY...INCLUDING LOCATIONS NEAR SELMER...SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY.
Special weather statement, May 23, 4:33 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 433 PM CDT SUN MAY 23 2010 TNZ091-092-232200- HARDIN TN-MCNAIRY TN- 433 PM CDT SUN MAY 23 2010 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR... SOUTHWESTERN HARDIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE... SOUTHEASTERN MCNAIRY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING PEA SIZE HAIL OR LARGER AND WINDS AT LEAST 40 MPH WAS LOCATED OVER SHILOH AT 433 PM CDT...MOVING NEARLY STATIONARY. VERY HEAVY RAIN IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. PEOPLE IN HARDIN AND MCNAIRY COUNTIES...INCLUDING LOCATIONS NEAR PICKWICK LANDING STATE PARK...SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| May 22, 8:47 PM CDT | River Flood Advisory | MEG | Shelby | 4 days |
| May 23, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Weakley | 29 min |
| May 23, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chester, Hardeman, McNairy | 38 min |
| May 23, 6:07 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MEG | Hardeman, McNairy | 74 min |
| May 23, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardeman | 30 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 2010Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2010
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.