Alert archive / Tennessee / Special Weather Statements in 2012
Special Weather Statement, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this special weather statement at May 6, 2012, 2:08 AM CDT for Decatur County, Tennessee. It was in force for 37 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
- May 6, 2012, 2:08 AM CDT (07:08 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2012, 2:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
County Decatur County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 1125 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1540 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WWUS84 KMEG 060708
SPSMEG
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
208 AM CDT SUN MAY 6 2012
TNZ055-060745-
DECATUR TN-
208 AM CDT SUN MAY 6 2012
...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 245 AM CDT FOR...
NORTHEASTERN DECATUR COUNTY IN TENNESSEE...
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING PEA SIZE HAIL OR LARGER AND WINDS AT
LEAST 40 MPH WAS LOCATED 4 MILES NORTH OF SUGAR TREE AT 208 AM CDT...
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
PEOPLE IN DECATUR COUNTY SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY.
&&
LAT...LON 3574 8801 3574 8802 3582 8818 3584 8818
3585 8807 3582 8802 3582 8796
TIME...MOT...LOC 0708Z 298DEG 16KT 3588 8802
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 2:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Yalobusha | 27 min |
| May 6, 3:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Yalobusha | 33 min |
| May 6, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Chickasaw, Pontotoc | 37 min |
| May 6, 4:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Chickasaw | 25 min |
| May 6, 5:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Monroe | 30 min |
| May 6, 6:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Monroe | 34 min |
| May 5, 11:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Weakley | 42 min |
| May 5, 11:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Henry, Weakley | 47 min |
| May 6, 12:23 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Weakley | 37 min |
| May 6, 12:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Henry | 32 min |
| May 6, 12:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Carroll, Henderson, Henry, Weakley | 45 min |
| May 6, 3:02 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Carroll | 43 min |
| May 6, 4:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Carroll, Weakley | 4 hr |
| May 6, 4:18 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Carroll | 42 min |
| May 6, 6:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Mississippi | 32 min |
| May 6, 5:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Pemiscot | 27 min |
| May 6, 5:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Pemiscot | 35 min |
| May 6, 6:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Dunklin | 29 min |
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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.