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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Jan 22, 2012, 10:10 PM CST for DeSoto County, Mississippi; Shelby County, Tennessee. It was in force for 35 min. 7 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 22, 2012, 10:10 PM CST (04:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 22, 2012, 10:45 PM CST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties DeSoto County, MS, Shelby County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 22, 10:18 PM CST | TSTM WND DMG | 1 S Southaven, MS | DEBRIS ON ROADWAY ON I-55 AT MILE MARKER 275...AND NORTHBOUND CHURCH ROAD EXIT SIGN ON I-55 BLOWN DOWN. |
| Jan 22, 10:18 PM CST | TSTM WND DMG | 2 Se Whitehaven, TN | WELCOME TO TENNESSEE SIGN BLOWN DOWN ON I-55 NEAR THE TENNESSEE/MISSISSIPPI STATE LINE |
| Jan 22, 10:20 PM CST | TSTM WND GST 105 | 3 Sw Southeast Memphis, TN | ESTIMATED WIND SPEED OF 105 MPH LIFTED A LARGE ROOF OFF A BUILDING AND DROPPED IT ABOUT 200 FEET AWAY ACROSS RAILROAD TRACKS. DAMAGE WAS JUST EAST OF MEMPHIS AIRPORT AROUND 1020 PM. MOST LIKELY A LARGE OVERHEAD DOOR COLLAPSED...ALLOWING THE ROOF TO BE BLOWN OF |
| Jan 22, 10:30 PM CST | HAIL 1.75 | Southaven, MS | REPORT OF HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS ON CHURCH ROAD BETWEEN GETWELL AND PLEASANT HILL ROAD. |
| Jan 22, 10:36 PM CST | TSTM WND GST 65 | 2 Sw Cordova, TN | ESTIMATED 65 MPH WIND GUST AT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE. |
| Jan 22, 10:36 PM CST | TSTM WND GST 65 | N Germantown, TN | ESTIMATED 65 MPH WIND GUST AT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE. |
| Jan 22, 10:40 PM CST | TSTM WND GST 58 | Germantown, TN |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 22, 5:16 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 26 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
- 998 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 455 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 475 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 474 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 10.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
263 WFUS54 KMEG 230410 TORMEG MSC033-TNC157-230445- /O.NEW.KMEG.TO.W.0010.120123T0410Z-120123T0445Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1010 PM CST SUN JAN 22 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN DESOTO COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... SOUTHERN SHELBY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE... * UNTIL 1045 PM CST * AT 1010 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR WALLS...OR NEAR HORN LAKE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO HORN LAKE...SOUTHAVEN...GERMANTOWN AND CORDOVA. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... .THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A STORM SHELTER. IF NO STORM SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. .TORNADOES ARE DIFFICULT TO SEE AND CONFIRM AT NIGHT. TAKE COVER NOW. && LAT...LON 3521 8973 3498 8972 3491 9020 3502 9020 TIME...MOT...LOC 0410Z 242DEG 54KT 3497 9009 $$
1 follow-up statement
937 WWUS54 KMEG 230434 RRA SVSMEG SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1034 PM CST SUN JAN 22 2012 MSC033-TNC157-230445- /O.CON.KMEG.TO.W.0010.000000T0000Z-120123T0445Z/ DESOTO MS-SHELBY TN- 1034 PM CST SUN JAN 22 2012 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1045 PM CST FOR SOUTH CENTRAL SHELBY AND EXTREME NORTHEASTERN DESOTO COUNTIES... AT 1034 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR GERMANTOWN... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO GERMANTOWN... SOUTHEAST MEMPHIS...LENOW...CORDOVA AND WHITE STATION. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... .TORNADOES ARE DIFFICULT TO SEE AND CONFIRM AT NIGHT. TAKE COVER NOW. && LAT...LON 3521 8973 3498 8972 3499 8988 3513 8992 TIME...MOT...LOC 0434Z 241DEG 52KT 3513 8973 $$ WRB/RRH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 22, 9:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Coahoma | 44 min |
| Jan 22, 9:18 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Tunica | 27 min |
| Jan 22, 9:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Coahoma, Tunica | 24 min |
| Jan 22, 9:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Coahoma, DeSoto, Panola, Quitman, Tate, Tunica | 49 min |
| Jan 22, 9:46 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | DeSoto, Tate, Tunica | 29 min |
| Jan 22, 9:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | DeSoto | 22 min |
| Jan 22, 10:06 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | DeSoto, Tunica | 24 min |
| Jan 22, 10:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Benton, DeSoto, Lafayette, Marshall, Panola, Quitman and 3 more | 50 min |
| Jan 22, 10:27 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Benton, DeSoto, Marshall | 48 min |
| Jan 22, 10:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Coahoma, Panola, Quitman, Tallahatchie, Yalobusha | 52 min |
| Jan 22, 11:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chickasaw, Lee, Monroe | 41 min |
| Jan 22, 11:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Chickasaw, Monroe | 32 min |
| Jan 22, 11:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Alcorn, Benton, Lafayette, Marshall, Panola, Tate and 2 more | 46 min |
| Jan 22, 11:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Alcorn, Tishomingo | 48 min |
| Jan 22, 11:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Marshall, Panola, Quitman, Tallahatchie, Yalobusha | 47 min |
| Jan 22, 11:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Alcorn, Tishomingo | 33 min |
| Jan 22, 11:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Lee, Marshall, Pontotoc, Tippah, Union | 47 min |
| Jan 23, 12:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Lafayette, Panola, Pontotoc, Tallahatchie, Yalobusha | 46 min |
| Jan 23, 12:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Alcorn, Prentiss, Tippah, Union | 41 min |
| Jan 23, 12:57 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Chickasaw, Itawamba | 48 min |
| Jan 23, 1:00 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Calhoun, Yalobusha | 30 min |
| Jan 23, 1:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba | 32 min |
| Jan 23, 1:31 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Calhoun, Chickasaw | 29 min |
| Jan 23, 1:59 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Chickasaw | 31 min |
| Jan 22, 9:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Dyer, Lauderdale, Shelby, Tipton | 55 min |
| Jan 22, 9:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Dyer, Lake, Obion | 52 min |
| Jan 22, 9:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crockett, Dyer, Haywood, Lauderdale | 27 min |
| Jan 22, 9:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Dyer, Gibson, Obion, Weakley | 33 min |
| Jan 22, 9:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Crockett, Gibson, Haywood | 43 min |
| Jan 22, 10:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Gibson, Obion, Weakley | 37 min |
| Jan 22, 10:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crockett, Haywood, Lauderdale, Shelby, Tipton | 46 min |
| Jan 22, 10:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Henry, Weakley | 36 min |
| Jan 22, 10:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crockett, Gibson, Haywood, Madison, Tipton | 43 min |
| Jan 22, 11:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chester, Fayette, Hardeman, Haywood, McNairy, Madison | 45 min |
| Jan 22, 11:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Gibson, Haywood and 2 more | 53 min |
| Jan 22, 11:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chester, Decatur, Hardin, Henderson, McNairy | 44 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.