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Freeze Warning 3, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this freeze warning at Oct 17, 2015, 1:49 PM CDT for 15 counties in Tennessee. It took effect at Oct 18, 2015, 2:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 17, 2015, 1:49 PM CDT (18:49 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 18, 2015, 2:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 18, 2015, 8:05 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
Counties Benton County, TN, Carroll County, TN, Chester County, TN, Crockett County, TN, Decatur County, TN, Dyer County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Hardin County, TN, Henderson County, TN, Henry County, TN, Lake County, TN, Madison County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Obion County, TN, Weakley County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1873 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 17, 3:07 AM CDT | Frost Advisory | MEG | Alcorn, Benton, DeSoto, Itawamba, Lafayette, Lee and 7 more | 29 hr |
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.