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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 376, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 2010, 3:34 PM CDT for Chester County, Henderson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 41 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
- Aug 5, 2010, 3:34 PM CDT (20:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2010, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Chester County, TN, Henderson County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 306 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
- 1520 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 925 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 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 Aug 5, 1:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 1:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 310 PM CDT THU AUG 5 2010 MSZ015-016-023-024-052100- LEE MS-PONTOTOC MS-MONROE MS-CHICKASAW MS- 310 PM CDT THU AUG 5 2010 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 400 PM CDT FOR... NORTHEASTERN CHICKASAW COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... SOUTHERN LEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... NORTHWESTERN MONROE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... SOUTHEASTERN PONTOTOC COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING WINDS AT LEAST 40 MPH WAS LOCATED 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TROY AT 310 PM CDT...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. PEOPLE IN CHICKASAW...LEE...MONROE AND PONTOTOC COUNTIES...INCLUDING LOCATIONS NEAR OKOLONA AND VERONA...SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY. THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT ALSO INCLUDES DAVIS LAKE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Chickasaw, Lee, Pontotoc | 46 min |
| Aug 5, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Panola, Tallahatchie, Yalobusha | 50 min |
| Aug 5, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Panola, Quitman, Tallahatchie | 49 min |
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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.