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Wind Advisory 15, NWS Memphis, TN

December 11, 201020 counties in Tennessee; 22 counties in Mississippi; 12 counties in Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this wind advisory at Dec 11, 2010, 3:14 PM CST for 20 counties in Tennessee; 22 counties in Mississippi; 12 counties in Arkansas. It took effect at Dec 11, 2010, 8:24 PM CST. It was in force for 28 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 11, 2010, 3:14 PM CST (21:14 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 11, 2010, 8:24 PM CST
Expired
Dec 13, 2010, 12:00 AM CST
In force
28 hr
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
All 54 counties

Clay County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Greene County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Lee County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Phillips County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, Randolph County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, Alcorn County, MS, Benton County, MS, Calhoun County, MS, Chickasaw County, MS, Coahoma County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Itawamba County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Lee County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Panola County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Tallahatchie County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS, Tunica County, MS, Union County, MS, Yalobusha County, MS, Carroll County, TN, Chester County, TN, Crockett County, TN, Decatur County, TN, Dyer County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Hardeman County, TN, Hardin County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Henderson County, TN, Henry County, TN, Lake County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Madison County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Obion County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Tipton County, TN, Weakley County, TN

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:15 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 283 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 2010-12-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2010-12-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 161 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1848 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
161 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
106 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 11, 3:25 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementMEGTallahatchie, Yalobusha50 min
Dec 11, 4:19 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementMEGCalhoun, Pontotoc, Union, Yalobusha26 min
Dec 11, 4:45 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementMEGCalhoun, Lee, Pontotoc, Union45 min
Dec 11, 5:29 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementMEGChickasaw, Lee31 min
Dec 11, 5:57 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementMEGItawamba, Monroe33 min

Nearby

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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.