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Special Weather Statement, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this special weather statement at Jun 28, 2014, 7:49 PM CDT for Fayette County, Tennessee. It was in force for 26 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
- Jun 28, 2014, 7:49 PM CDT (00:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 2014, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
County Fayette County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KBYH), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 940 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 539 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 230 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 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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</html>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 Jun 28, 3:17 PM CDT, 4 hours 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 3:17 PM CDT, 4 hours 32 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 317 PM CDT SAT JUN 28 2014 .DISCUSSION...WATER VAPOR SATELLITE/WSR-88D VAD WIND PROFILES CONTINUE TO INDICATE AN UPPER LEVEL LONGWAVE TROUGH AXIS OVER THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. ANOTHER SHORTWAVE TROUGH COMBINED WITH DAYTIME HEATING/CONVECTIVE TEMPERATURES BEING REACHED HAS RESULTED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON. AS OF 2 PM CDT...TEMPERATURES ARE IN THE 80S ACROSS MOST LOCATIONS. CONVECTIVE CHANCES FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS WEEKEND INTO NEXT WEEK IS THE PRIMARY FORECAST CHALLENGE IN THIS AFTERNOON/S FORECAST ISSUANCE. A SHORTWAVE TROUGH EMBEDDED WITHIN THE LONGWAVE TROUGH AXIS WILL MOVE INTO THE MID SOUTH TONIGHT. AN 850 MB LOW LEVEL JET CURRENTLY LOCATED ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE SOUTHERN PLAINS AND WESTERN SECTIONS OF THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY WILL GRADUALLY SHIFT EAST TONIGHT INTO ARKANSAS. THIS LOW LEVEL JET COMBINED WITH THE UPPER LEVEL TROUGH AXIS BEGINNING TO SHIFT EAST SHOULD ASSIST IN ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS THE REGION TONIGHT. THUS...HAVE GONE WITH CHANCE POPS TONIGHT WITH THE BEST RAIN CHANCES OCCURRING ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST ARKANSAS. KEPT CHANCE POPS GOING ACROSS THE MID SOUTH FOR MONDAY AS THE UPPER LEVEL TROUGH AXIS WILL BE MOVING ACROSS THE AREA. SHORT TERM MODELS INDICATE AN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE LOCATED OVER THE SOUTHWEST UNITED STATES AND PORTIONS OF THE SOUTHERN PLAINS WILL SHIFT EAST INTO THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY. THIS IS ANTICIPATED TO BRING MAINLY RAIN FREE WEATHER TO THE MID SOUTH FOR MONDAY. HIGH TEMPERATURES ON SUNDAY WILL BE IN THE MIDDLE 80S TO APPROACHING 90 DEGREES. THE BUILDING RIDGE FOR EARLY NEXT WEEK WILL RESULT IN HIGHS IN THE LOWER TO PERHAPS MIDDLE 90S THROUGH AT LEAST NEXT TUESDAY. GFS/ECMWF LONG TERM MODELS INDICATE THE UPPER LEVEL RIDGE AXIS WILL BEGIN TO RETROGRADE LATE TUESDAY AS A BACK DOOR COLD FRONT DROPS SOUTH INTO THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. TODAY/S 12Z MODEL RUN IS SOMEWHAT LESS AGGRESSIVE WITH CLEARING OUT PRECIPITATION CHANCES AND SUBSEQUENTLY HELD ON TO SHOWER/THUNDERSTORM CHANCES THROUGH THURSDAY. SLIGHTLY COOLER TEMPERATURES ARE ANTICIPATED FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK. CJC && .AVIATION... 18Z TAFS LOOKS LIKE MEM WILL GET A BREAK IN THE THUNDERSTORMS FOR A FEW HOURS...BUT ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT IS POSSIBLE AT ANY TIME...AND EXPECTED. WILL REINTRODUCE VCTS AT 20Z. SHOWERS WITH INTERMITTENT THUNDER WILL CONTINUE AT MKL WITH A BREAK LIKELY AROUND MID AFTERNOON...REDEVELOPMENT IS LESS CERTAIN AT MKL...BUT WILL ADD VCSH AFTER 00Z. OVERNIGHT...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY CONTINUE...BUT THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD WEAKEN AND COVERAGE WILL LIKELY BE MINIMAL BY THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY AFTER SUNRISE. CIGS ARE EXPECTED TO LOWER TO AROUND 1500 FT LATE TONIGHT. VIS MAY BRIEFLY DROP TO MVFR OR EVEN IFR LEVELS IN ASSOCIATION WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM...BUT PREVAILING VIS WILL REMAIN VFR. JDS && .MEG WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...NONE. MO...NONE. MS...NONE. TN...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 28, 3:38 AM CDT, 16 hours 11 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 338 AM CDT SAT JUN 28 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>092-291045- 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- 338 AM CDT SAT JUN 28 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST ARKANSAS... THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL...NORTH MISSISSIPPI...AND WEST TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL ARE POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SUNDAY. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL ARE POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. SJM
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 6:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 615 PM CDT SAT JUN 28 2014 ARZ036-MSZ001-TNZ088-282345- CRITTENDEN AR-DE SOTO MS-SHELBY TN- 615 PM CDT SAT JUN 28 2014 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR... SOUTHEASTERN CRITTENDEN COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS... NORTHWESTERN DESOTO COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI... SOUTHWESTERN SHELBY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL AND WINDS TO 50 MPH WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF T O FULLER STATE PARK AT 615 PM CDT...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL OCCUR WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. PEOPLE IN CRITTENDEN...DESOTO AND SHELBY COUNTIES...INCLUDING LOCATIONS NEAR MARION...T O FULLER STATE PARK AND WEST MEMPHIS... SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY. THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT ALSO INCLUDES BRANDYWINE LAKE...CORONEE LAKE AND WAPANOCCA LAKE. && LAT...LON 3525 9023 3527 9003 3486 9011 3492 9034 TIME...MOT...LOC 2315Z 191DEG 22KT 3503 9017
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 6:28 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 628 PM CDT SAT JUN 28 2014 MSZ008-012-290000- TATE MS-PANOLA MS- 628 PM CDT SAT JUN 28 2014 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR... PANOLA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI... SOUTH CENTRAL TATE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL AND WINDS TO 50 MPH WAS LOCATED 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BATESVILLE AT 627 PM CDT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL OCCUR WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. PEOPLE IN PANOLA AND TATE COUNTIES...INCLUDING LOCATIONS NEAR BATESVILLE AND JOHN W KYLE STATE PARK...SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY. && LAT...LON 3464 8989 3455 8972 3418 8991 3426 9011 TIME...MOT...LOC 2327Z 207DEG 39KT 3430 8996
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 6:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
641 PM CDT SAT JUN 28 2014
MSZ001-TNZ088-290015-
DE SOTO MS-SHELBY TN-
641 PM CDT SAT JUN 28 2014
...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR...
DESOTO COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI...
SOUTH CENTRAL SHELBY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE...
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING PEA SIZE HAIL AND WINDS TO 45 MPH
WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTH OF HERNANDO AT 641 PM CDT...MOVING NORTH
AT 35 MPH.
PEOPLE IN DESOTO AND SHELBY COUNTIES...INCLUDING LOCATIONS NEAR
HERNANDO...HORN LAKE...OLIVE BRANCH AND SOUTHAVEN...SHOULD MONITOR
THIS STORM CLOSELY. THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT ALSO INCLUDES HORN
LAKE...LAKE MCKELLAR AND ROBCO LAKE.
&&
LAT...LON 3510 9006 3504 8971 3477 8986 3477 8991
3474 8995 3478 9020
TIME...MOT...LOC 2341Z 200DEG 32KT 3480 9000Special weather statement, Jun 28, 7:03 PM CDT, 46 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
703 PM CDT SAT JUN 28 2014
MSZ001-002-008-290030-
TATE MS-MARSHALL MS-DE SOTO MS-
703 PM CDT SAT JUN 28 2014
...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR...
EAST CENTRAL DESOTO COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI...
MARSHALL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI...
EASTERN TATE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI...
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING PEA SIZE HAIL AND WINDS GUSTS OF 40
TO 50 MPH WAS LOCATED OVER BARR AT 703 PM CDT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
40 MPH.
VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL OCCUR WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.
PEOPLE IN DESOTO...MARSHALL AND TATE COUNTIES SHOULD MONITOR THIS
STORM CLOSELY.
&&
LAT...LON 3455 8969 3455 8978 3461 8991 3495 8976
3487 8938
TIME...MOT...LOC 0003Z 210DEG 36KT 3466 8975Special weather statement, Jun 28, 7:18 PM CDT, 31 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 718 PM CDT SAT JUN 28 2014 MSZ001-002-TNZ088-089-290045- MARSHALL MS-DE SOTO MS-SHELBY TN-FAYETTE TN- 718 PM CDT SAT JUN 28 2014 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR... NORTHEASTERN DESOTO COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI... NORTHWESTERN MARSHALL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI... WESTERN FAYETTE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE... EASTERN SHELBY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING WINDS TO 45 MPH WAS LOCATED 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COLLIERVILLE AT 719 PM CDT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL OCCUR WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. PEOPLE IN DESOTO...FAYETTE...MARSHALL AND SHELBY COUNTIES...INCLUDING LOCATIONS NEAR COLLIERVILLE...CORDOVA...GERMANTOWN AND OLIVE BRANCH...SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY. && LAT...LON 3535 8972 3529 8940 3488 8969 3496 8989 TIME...MOT...LOC 0019Z 204DEG 35KT 3505 8971
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 7:49 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
749 PM CDT SAT JUN 28 2014
MSZ002-TNZ089-090-290115-
MARSHALL MS-FAYETTE TN-HARDEMAN TN-
749 PM CDT SAT JUN 28 2014
...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR...
NORTH CENTRAL MARSHALL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI...
FAYETTE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE...
WEST CENTRAL HARDEMAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE...
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING WINDS TO 50 MPH WAS LOCATED 4 MILES
NORTH OF SLAYDEN AT 749 PM CDT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL OCCUR WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.
PEOPLE IN FAYETTE...HARDEMAN AND MARSHALL COUNTIES SHOULD MONITOR
THIS STORM CLOSELY.
&&
LAT...LON 3499 8933 3499 8935 3497 8935 3491 8942
3503 8960 3531 8940 3519 8912
TIME...MOT...LOC 0049Z 220DEG 29KT 3503 8940The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 7:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Fayette | 27 min |
| Jun 28, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette, Shelby | 33 min |
| Jun 28, 7:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Shelby | 2 hr |
| Jun 29, 2:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MEG | Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 15 more | 16 hr |
| Jun 29, 4:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Shelby | 9 hr |
| Jun 29, 5:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Fayette, Shelby | 8 hr |
| Jun 29, 6:57 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Shelby | 23 hr |
| Jun 29, 10:41 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Lake | 6 hr |
| Jun 29, 1:00 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MEG | Fayette, Shelby | 6 hr |
| Jun 29, 2:39 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MEG | Lake | 4 hr |
| Jun 28, 7:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Marshall | 27 min |
| Jun 28, 7:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Panola, Quitman, Tate | 3 hr |
| Jun 28, 8:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Quitman, Tallahatchie | 43 min |
| Jun 28, 9:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Tallahatchie | 3 hr |
| Jun 29, 12:55 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Tunica | 50 min |
| Jun 28, 8:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Cross, Poinsett | 37 min |
| Jun 29, 12:13 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Lee | 47 min |
| Jun 29, 2:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Cross, Lee, Phillips, St. Francis | 7 hr |
| Jun 29, 2:24 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Lee, Phillips | 51 min |
| Jun 29, 2:57 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Cross, Lee, St. Francis | 33 min |
| Jun 29, 3:34 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Crittenden | 26 min |
| Jun 29, 3:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Crittenden, Cross, Lee, St. Francis | 5 hr |
| Jun 29, 3:55 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Crittenden | 35 min |
| Jun 29, 4:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Poinsett | 4 hr |
| Jun 29, 8:29 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Lee, Poinsett, St. Francis | 3 hr |
| Jun 29, 8:48 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Lee, St. Francis | 5 days |
| Jun 29, 11:06 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MEG | Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Lee, Poinsett, St. Francis | 6 hr |
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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.