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Special Weather Statement, NWS Memphis, TN

March 2, 2012Crockett County, Gibson County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this special weather statement at Mar 2, 2012, 4:13 AM CST for Crockett County, Gibson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 2, 2012, 4:13 AM CST (10:13 UTC)
Expired: Mar 2, 2012, 4:45 AM CST
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN

Counties Crockett County, TN, Gibson County, TN

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 197 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3173 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 172 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Mar 1, 11:41 PM CST, 4 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 1, 11:41 PM CST, 4 hours 32 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 2, 3:23 AM CST, 50 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 2, 4:13 AM CST, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 2, 2:50 AM CST	Wind Advisory	MEG	Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Coahoma, DeSoto and 16 more	15 hr
Mar 2, 1:28 PM CST	Red Flag Warning	MEG	Coahoma, DeSoto, Tunica	5 hr
Mar 2, 1:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Itawamba, Lee, Prentiss, Tishomingo	42 min
Mar 2, 2:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe	44 min
Mar 2, 2:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Calhoun, Chickasaw, Lee, Pontotoc, Yalobusha	41 min
Mar 2, 2:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, Marshall	44 min
Mar 2, 2:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Calhoun, Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe	47 min
Mar 2, 2:43 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Benton, Marshall	32 min
Mar 2, 3:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Coahoma, Panola, Quitman, Tallahatchie, Yalobusha	51 min
Mar 2, 3:13 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Alcorn	32 min
Mar 2, 3:19 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Itawamba, Monroe	26 min
Mar 2, 3:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tallahatchie, Yalobusha	51 min
Mar 2, 3:42 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Itawamba, Monroe	18 min
Mar 2, 3:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, Lafayette, Marshall, Panola, Pontotoc, Union	46 min
Mar 2, 3:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Alcorn, Benton, Marshall, Tippah	39 min
Mar 2, 4:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lafayette, Panola, Pontotoc, Tallahatchie, Union, Yalobusha	44 min
Mar 2, 4:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, Lafayette, Marshall, Tippah	34 min
Mar 2, 4:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Calhoun, Chickasaw, Lee, Pontotoc	47 min
Mar 2, 4:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lafayette, Lee, Pontotoc, Tippah, Union	50 min
Mar 2, 4:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Alcorn, Benton, Tippah	30 min
Mar 2, 4:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, Marshall, Tippah	26 min
Mar 2, 4:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Calhoun, Chickasaw, Pontotoc, Yalobusha	23 min
Mar 2, 4:57 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Calhoun, Yalobusha	18 min
Mar 2, 5:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Calhoun, Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe, Pontotoc	47 min
Mar 2, 5:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Alcorn, Lee, Prentiss, Tippah, Tishomingo, Union	44 min
Mar 2, 5:33 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Chickasaw, Monroe	27 min
Mar 2, 5:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Alcorn, Tishomingo	30 min
Mar 2, 5:51 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Itawamba, Monroe	24 min
Mar 2, 5:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe	50 min
Mar 2, 2:33 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Carroll, Gibson, Henderson, Madison	27 min
Mar 2, 3:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chester, Henderson, Madison	28 min
Mar 2, 3:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Hardeman, McNairy	23 min
Mar 2, 3:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Hardin, McNairy	36 min
Mar 2, 3:51 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Hardin	24 min
Mar 2, 4:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chester, Hardeman, McNairy	37 min
Mar 2, 4:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chester, Decatur, Hardin, Henderson, McNairy	32 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.