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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 296, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 2010, 4:14 PM CDT for Fayette County, Shelby County, Tennessee. It was in force for 34 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 18, 2010, 4:14 PM CDT (21:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 2010, 4:48 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Fayette County, TN, Shelby County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 322 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
- 2524 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 787 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 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 Jun 18, 3:58 PM CDT, 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 3:58 PM CDT, 16 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 18, 1:49 PM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 255 PM CDT FRI JUN 18 2010 MSZ007-010-011-182030- TUNICA MS-COAHOMA MS-QUITMAN MS- 255 PM CDT FRI JUN 18 2010 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 330 PM CDT FOR... NORTHEASTERN COAHOMA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI... NORTHERN QUITMAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI... SOUTHEASTERN TUNICA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING PEA SIZE HAIL OR LARGER AND WINDS AT LEAST 40 MPH WAS LOCATED 4 MILES NORTH OF JONESTOWN AT 255 PM CDT... MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. PEOPLE IN COAHOMA...QUITMAN AND TUNICA COUNTIES SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY. THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT ALSO INCLUDES MOON LAKE.
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 3:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 308 PM CDT FRI JUN 18 2010 TNZ088-089-182045- FAYETTE TN-SHELBY TN- 308 PM CDT FRI JUN 18 2010 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 345 PM CDT FOR... NORTHWESTERN FAYETTE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE... NORTHEASTERN SHELBY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING WINDS AT LEAST 40 MPH WAS LOCATED OVER LAKELAND AT 309 PM CDT...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. PEOPLE IN FAYETTE AND SHELBY COUNTIES SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY.
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 3:16 PM CDT, 58 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 3:30 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | MEG | Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer, Fayette and 14 more | 7 days |
| Jun 18, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette, Shelby | 47 min |
| Jun 18, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette, Shelby | 41 min |
| Jun 18, 3:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Fayette, Shelby | 103 min |
| Jun 18, 4:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Shelby | 42 min |
| Jun 18, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Haywood, Lauderdale | 48 min |
| Jun 18, 5:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Fayette | 44 min |
| Jun 18, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette, Shelby | 16 min |
| Jun 18, 5:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Shelby, Tipton | 81 min |
| Jun 18, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Marshall | 44 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.