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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 137, NWS Memphis, TN

June 5, 20144 counties in Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2014, 3:55 PM CDT for 4 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 28 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: Jun 5, 2014, 3:55 PM CDT (20:55 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2014, 4:23 PM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Itawamba County, MS, Lee County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 5, 10:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KBYH), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 143 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: 1632 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -211 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 673 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 124 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 132 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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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 Jun 5, 3:38 PM CDT, 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 3:38 PM CDT, 17 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 5, 2:26 PM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
226 PM CDT THU JUN 5 2014

ARZ008-009-017-018-026>028-035-036-048-049-058-MOZ113-115-
MSZ001>017-020>024-TNZ001>004-019>022-048>055-088>092-062130-
ALCORN-BENTON MS-BENTON TN-CALHOUN-CARROLL-CHESTER-CHICKASAW-CLAY-
COAHOMA-CRAIGHEAD-CRITTENDEN-CROCKETT-CROSS-DESOTO-DECATUR-
DUNKLIN-DYER-FAYETTE-GIBSON-GREENE-HARDEMAN-HARDIN-HAYWOOD-
HENDERSON-HENRY-ITAWAMBA-LAFAYETTE-LAKE-LAUDERDALE-LAWRENCE-
LEE AR-LEE MS-MADISON-MARSHALL-MCNAIRY-MISSISSIPPI-MONROE-OBION-
PANOLA-PEMISCOT-PHILLIPS-POINSETT-PONTOTOC-PRENTISS-QUITMAN-
RANDOLPH-SHELBY-ST. FRANCIS-TALLAHATCHIE-TATE-TIPPAH-TIPTON-
TISHOMINGO-TUNICA-UNION-WEAKLEY-YALOBUSHA-
226 PM CDT THU JUN 5 2014

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST ARKANSAS...
THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL...NORTH MISSISSIPPI...AND WEST TENNESSEE.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

THERE IS A MODERATE RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHEAST
ARKANSAS...THE BOOTHEEL OF MISSOURI...EXTREME WEST TENNESSEE...AND
EXTREME NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE PRIMARY
THREATS WILL BE WIDESPREAD DAMAGING WINDS AND FLASH FLOODING.
SECONDARY THREATS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND ISOLATED TORNADOES.

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE
REMAINDER OF WEST TENNESSEE...NORTH MISSISSIPPI AND EAST CENTRAL
ARKANSAS TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE PRIMARY THREATS WILL BE DAMAGING
WINDS AND FLASH FLOODING. THE SECONDARY THREATS WILL BE LARGE HAIL
AND ISOLATED TORNADOES.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS PORTIONS OF
THE MID-SOUTH FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. THE PRIMARY THREATS WILL BE
DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED ACROSS THE MIDSOUTH THIS
AFTERNOON AND POSSIBLY OVERNIGHT.

JAB

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 5, 2:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
253 PM CDT THU JUN 05 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0253 PM     TSTM WND DMG     EADS                    35.20N 89.67W
06/05/2014                   SHELBY             TN   PUBLIC

            COLLIERVILLE ARLINGTON RD IS BLOCKED BETWEEN DONELSON AND
            64 DUE TO DOWN TREES

&&

JPM

Local storm report, Jun 5, 3:01 PM CDT, 54 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
301 PM CDT THU JUN 05 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0244 PM     TSTM WND GST     JACKSON                 35.63N 88.83W
06/05/2014  M68 MPH          MADISON            TN   ASOS

            ASOS AT KMKL REPORTED

&&

JPM

Special weather statement, Jun 5, 3:11 PM CDT, 44 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
311 PM CDT THU JUN 5 2014

MSZ004-009-014-016-052045-
UNION MS-TIPPAH MS-PRENTISS MS-LEE MS-
311 PM CDT THU JUN 5 2014

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 345 PM CDT FOR...

  NORTHERN LEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...
  PRENTISS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...
  SOUTHEASTERN TIPPAH COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...
  UNION COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...

A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING PEA SIZE HAIL AND WINDS TO
50 MPH WAS LOCATED FROM BOONEVILLE TO 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NEW
ALBANY AT 312 PM CDT...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

PEOPLE IN LEE...PRENTISS...TIPPAH AND UNION COUNTIES...INCLUDING
LOCATIONS NEAR BALDWYN...BOONEVILLE AND NEW ALBANY...SHOULD MONITOR
THIS STORM CLOSELY.

.A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE ADVISORY
AREA.

&&

LAT...LON 3444 8856 3430 8872 3434 8883 3437 8883
      3437 8889 3446 8914 3461 8904 3480 8886
      3468 8857 3476 8836 3474 8833 3471 8833
TIME...MOT...LOC 2012Z 292DEG 32KT 3467 8851 3453 8885
          3444 8907

Local storm report, Jun 5, 3:42 PM CDT, 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 5, 3:44 PM CDT, 11 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 5, 3:50 PM CDT, 5 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
Jun 4, 10:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Henry	49 min
Jun 4, 11:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Henry, Obion, Weakley	41 min
Jun 4, 11:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, Henry	27 min
Jun 4, 11:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Carroll, Henry, Obion, Weakley	50 min
Jun 5, 12:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Carroll, Henry, Weakley	43 min
Jun 5, 1:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Weakley	49 min
Jun 5, 1:43 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Benton, Carroll, Henry, Weakley	6 hr
Jun 5, 4:36 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Benton, Carroll, Decatur, Henderson	3 hr
Jun 5, 7:48 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	MEG	Benton, Carroll, Decatur, Henry	6 hr
Jun 5, 8:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Carroll, Gibson, Weakley	51 min
Jun 5, 8:44 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	MEG	Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 15 more	39 hr
Jun 5, 9:06 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Carroll, Decatur, Gibson, Henderson, Madison	3 hr
Jun 5, 11:37 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Madison	23 min
Jun 5, 12:38 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Carroll, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer, Gibson, Haywood and 6 more	3 hr
Jun 5, 1:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Haywood, Madison	30 min
Jun 5, 1:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Fayette, Haywood, Lauderdale, Shelby, Tipton	40 min
Jun 5, 1:44 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	MEG	Benton, Carroll, Decatur, Henry	6 hr
Jun 5, 2:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chester, Fayette, Hardeman, Haywood, Lauderdale, Madison and 2 more	28 min
Jun 5, 2:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crockett, Dyer, Gibson, Haywood, Lake, Lauderdale and 2 more	40 min
Jun 5, 2:11 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Chester, Decatur, Fayette, Hardeman, Hardin, Haywood and 3 more	4 hr
Jun 5, 2:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chester, Fayette, Hardeman, Haywood, McNairy, Madison	43 min
Jun 5, 2:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Dyer, Gibson, Henderson and 4 more	24 min
Jun 5, 2:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chester, Decatur, Hardin, Henderson, McNairy	45 min
Jun 5, 2:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, Carroll, Chester, Decatur, Dyer, Gibson and 5 more	47 min
Jun 5, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chester, Hardeman, Hardin, McNairy, Madison	45 min
Jun 5, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chester, Decatur, Hardin, Henderson	32 min
Jun 5, 3:29 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Carroll, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer, Gibson, Haywood and 6 more	4 hr
Jun 5, 3:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Benton, Decatur	10 min
Jun 5, 2:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, DeSoto, Marshall, Tate, Tippah, Union	52 min
Jun 5, 3:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Prentiss, Union	34 min
Jun 5, 3:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Alcorn, Itawamba, Lee, Prentiss, Tishomingo	49 min
Jun 5, 3:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Itawamba, Lee, Pontotoc	46 min
Jun 5, 1:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Clay, Greene, Randolph	27 min
Jun 5, 12:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lawrence, Randolph	41 min
Jun 5, 12:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead, Greene, Lawrence, Poinsett	61 min
Jun 5, 12:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Clay	25 min
Jun 5, 12:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead, Greene, Mississippi, Poinsett	50 min
Jun 5, 1:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crittenden, Cross, Mississippi, Poinsett	39 min
Jun 5, 1:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Clay, Craighead, Greene, Mississippi	52 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 2014 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2014

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.