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Heat Advisory 2, NWS Memphis, TN

June 16, 2016Shelby County, Tennessee; Coahoma County, DeSoto County, Tunica County, Mississippi; 5 counties in Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this heat advisory at Jun 16, 2016, 10:31 AM CDT for Shelby County, Tennessee; Coahoma County, DeSoto County, Tunica County, Mississippi; 5 counties in Arkansas. It took effect at Jun 16, 2016, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 24 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 16, 2016, 10:31 AM CDT (15:31 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 16, 2016, 7:00 PM CDT
Expired: Jun 17, 2016, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 24 hr
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN

Counties Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Lee County, AR, Phillips County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, Coahoma County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Tunica County, MS, Shelby County, TN

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:35 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 376 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: 772 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -288 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1944 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this heat advisory 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 heat advisory went out at Jun 16, 9:24 AM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 9:24 AM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 16, 7:30 AM CDT, 3 hours 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
730 AM CDT THU JUN 16 2016

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

0323 PM     HAIL             5 NE SAMBURG            36.43N 89.29W
06/15/2016  E1.00 INCH       OBION              TN   EMERGENCY MNGR

            SPOTTER ON TWIITER SENT PICTURE OF QUARTER SIZED HAIL
            NEAR SAMBURG.

0335 PM     TSTM WND DMG     2 W MARTIN              36.34N 88.89W
06/15/2016                   WEAKLEY            TN   PUBLIC

            TREES DOWN ON HOUSES AND CARS AT HWY 431 AND CAPPS ROAD.
            TIME APPROXIMATE.

0352 PM     TSTM WND DMG     UNION CITY              36.42N 89.05W
06/15/2016                   OBION              TN   PUBLIC

            TREES DOWN ALL OVER THE KEN-TENN HWY IN UNION CITY AND
            WEST HWY 22 AND SHAWTOWN RD

0403 PM     TSTM WND DMG     5 WNW MARTIN            36.37N 88.94W
06/15/2016                   WEAKLEY            TN   PUBLIC

            MULTIPLE TREES DOWN ON CYPRESS CREEK ROAD

0408 PM     TSTM WND DMG     3 E CAMDEN              36.06N 88.05W
06/15/2016                   BENTON             TN   AMATEUR RADIO

            TREE DOWN ACROSS POWER LINE

0411 PM     TSTM WND DMG     5 N CAMDEN              36.14N 88.10W
06/15/2016                   BENTON             TN   EMERGENCY MNGR

            TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN BETWEEN CAMDEN AND EVA. TIME
            APPROXIMATE

0425 PM     TSTM WND DMG     1 W CAMDEN              36.06N 88.12W
06/15/2016                   BENTON             TN   EMERGENCY MNGR

            TREES BLOCKING ROADWAY ON DIVIDER...NATCHEZ
            TRACE...STIGALL ROAD AND HIGHWAY 70 AND FLATWOOD ROADS
            WEST OF CAMDEN.

0450 PM     TSTM WND DMG     UNION CITY              36.42N 89.05W
06/15/2016                   OBION              TN   PUBLIC

            MANY TREES REPORTED DOWN IN OBION COUNTY.

0528 PM     NON-TSTM WND GST IMBODEN                 36.20N 91.18W
06/15/2016  E55.00 MPH       LAWRENCE           AR   TRAINED SPOTTER

            50 TO 60 MILE AN HOUR WIND

0623 PM     HAIL             OAK GROVE HEIGHTS       36.13N 90.52W
06/15/2016  E1.00 INCH       GREENE             AR   PUBLIC

0722 PM     TSTM WND GST     4 W JOINER              35.51N 90.22W
06/15/2016  M64.00 MPH       MISSISSIPPI        AR   TRAINED SPOTTER

0800 PM     HAIL             7 N HAYTI               36.33N 89.75W
06/15/2016  E0.88 INCH       PEMISCOT           MO   PUBLIC

0815 PM     TSTM WND DMG     GERMANTOWN              35.09N 89.79W
06/15/2016                   SHELBY             TN   PUBLIC

            TREES DOWN

0825 PM     TSTM WND DMG     CAYCE                   34.96N 89.62W
06/15/2016                   MARSHALL           MS   TRAINED SPOTTER

            TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN.

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MRM

The office that day

Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 7:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lauderdale, Shelby, Tipton	41 min
Jun 15, 7:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Shelby	46 min
Jun 15, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Fayette, Shelby	38 min
Jun 16, 10:31 AM CDT	Excessive Heat Warning	MEG	Lauderdale, Shelby, Tipton	8 hr
Jun 15, 7:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead, Crittenden, Mississippi, Poinsett	42 min

Nearby

Heat Advisories in Arkansas, 2016 Heat Advisories in Mississippi, 2016 Heat Advisories in Tennessee, 2016 Every heat advisory in 2016

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.