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Special Weather Statement, NWS Memphis, TN

August 6, 2015Quitman County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2015, 6:35 AM CDT for Quitman County, Mississippi. It was in force for 25 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: Aug 6, 2015, 6:35 AM CDT (11:35 UTC)
Expired: Aug 6, 2015, 7:00 AM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN

County Quitman County, MS

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KBYH), launched 00:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 67 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: 732 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -132 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1703 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 171 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 284 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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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 Aug 6, 4:45 AM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 4:45 AM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 6, 4:51 AM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 6, 1:57 AM CDT, 4 hours 38 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
157 AM CDT THU AUG 06 2015

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

0150 AM     NON-TSTM WND DMG 4 NW FORREST CITY       35.06N 90.84W
08/06/2015                   ST. FRANCIS        AR   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TREE REPORTED DOWN ON A CAR ON HIGHWAY 261 NORTH

&&

CJC

Special weather statement, Aug 6, 2:04 AM CDT, 4 hours 31 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
204 AM CDT THU AUG 6 2015

MSZ013>017-021-022-060730-
LEE MS-YALOBUSHA MS-ITAWAMBA MS-CALHOUN MS-LAFAYETTE MS-PONTOTOC MS-
UNION MS-
204 AM CDT THU AUG 6 2015

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL UNTIL 230 AM CDT FOR...

NORTHERN LEE COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI...
NORTHEASTERN YALOBUSHA COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN MISSISSIPPI...
NORTHWESTERN ITAWAMBA COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI...
NORTHERN CALHOUN COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI...
SOUTHEASTERN LAFAYETTE COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN MISSISSIPPI...
PONTOTOC COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI...
SOUTHEASTERN UNION COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI...

AT 203 AM CDT...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING WINDS TO 45
MPH WAS LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR BLAIR TO NEAR
PARIS...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL OCCUR WITH THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS.

PEOPLE IN NORTHERN LEE...NORTHEASTERN YALOBUSHA...NORTHWESTERN
ITAWAMBA...NORTHERN CALHOUN...SOUTHEASTERN LAFAYETTE...PONTOTOC AND
SOUTHEASTERN UNION COUNTIES SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY.

LAT...LON 3413 8967 3458 8875 3456 8873 3451 8874
      3451 8869 3435 8854 3407 8910 3407 8914
      3405 8914 3390 8944
TIME...MOT...LOC 0703Z 288DEG 28KT 3453 8876 3415 8953

Special weather statement, Aug 6, 3:13 AM CDT, 3 hours 22 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
313 AM CDT THU AUG 6 2015

MSZ017-024-060845-
ITAWAMBA MS-MONROE MS-
313 AM CDT THU AUG 6 2015

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

SOUTHWESTERN ITAWAMBA COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI...
MONROE COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI...

AT 313 AM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING WINDS TO 45 MPH WAS
LOCATED NEAR NETTLETON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

VERY HEAVY RAIN IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.

PEOPLE IN SOUTHWESTERN ITAWAMBA AND MONROE COUNTIES SHOULD MONITOR
THIS STORM CLOSELY.

LAT...LON 3367 8847 3400 8870 3409 8858 3409 8855
      3411 8854 3415 8849 3402 8821 3375 8825
      3375 8832 3372 8833 3369 8837 3369 8839
      3367 8842 3368 8843 3366 8846
TIME...MOT...LOC 0813Z 308DEG 33KT 3405 8854

Special weather statement, Aug 6, 4:10 AM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 6, 6:33 AM CDT, 2 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 6, 6:35 AM CDT, 0 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
Aug 5, 11:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	DeSoto, Marshall	46 min
Aug 6, 12:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Benton, Marshall, Tate	45 min
Aug 6, 12:29 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	DeSoto, Marshall	3 hr
Aug 6, 12:57 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Coahoma, DeSoto, Lafayette, Marshall, Panola, Quitman and 2 more	2 hr
Aug 6, 1:54 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Alcorn, Benton, Lee, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Tippah and 1 more	2 hr
Aug 6, 2:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Lee, Pontotoc	26 min
Aug 6, 3:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Monroe	32 min
Aug 6, 4:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Benton, Tippah	35 min
Aug 6, 6:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Pontotoc	42 min
Aug 5, 10:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Shelby, Tipton	50 min
Aug 5, 11:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Fayette, Shelby, Tipton	37 min
Aug 5, 11:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Fayette, Shelby	34 min
Aug 5, 9:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Craighead, Poinsett	3 hr
Aug 5, 11:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Crittenden, Cross, Poinsett	3 hr
Aug 6, 12:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Crittenden, Lee, St. Francis	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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.