Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 2, 2016, 1:50 PM CST for Chester County, Henderson County, Madison County, Tennessee. 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
- Feb 2, 2016, 1:50 PM CST (19:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 2, 2016, 2:15 PM CST
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Chester County, TN, Henderson County, TN, Madison County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:52 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 12:22 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KBYH), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 226 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 520 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 403 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 512 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted.
073
WUUS54 KMEG 021950
SVRMEG
TNC023-077-113-022015-
/O.NEW.KMEG.SV.W.0002.160202T1950Z-160202T2015Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
150 PM CST TUE FEB 2 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL CHESTER COUNTY IN WEST TENNESSEE...
NORTHWESTERN HENDERSON COUNTY IN WEST TENNESSEE...
SOUTHEASTERN MADISON COUNTY IN WEST TENNESSEE...
* UNTIL 215 PM CST
* AT 149 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES NORTHWEST
OF HENDERSON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 65 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...SIDING AND TREES.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
JACKSON...LEXINGTON...HENDERSON...NATCHEZ TRACE STATE FOREST...
NATCHEZ TRACE STATE PARK...WILDERSVILLE...MIFFLIN...BARGERTON...
PARKERS CROSSROADS...BLUE GOOSE...MEDON...SAND RIDGE...UNION
CROSS...PARKER'S CROSS ROADS...TIMBERLAKE...MAPLE GROVE...MIDDLE
FORK...HINSON SPRINGS...MOUNT GILEAD AND BEECH BLUFF.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CST FOR WESTERN
TENNESSEE.
LAT...LON 3534 8873 3550 8891 3582 8850 3582 8840
3573 8818
TIME...MOT...LOC 1949Z 227DEG 57KT 3549 8876
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 12:02 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Fayette, Shelby | 3 hr |
| Feb 2, 2:01 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Chester, Henderson, Madison | 29 min |
| Feb 2, 2:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Benton, Carroll, Decatur, Henderson | 34 min |
| Feb 2, 3:29 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Shelby | 2 hr |
| Feb 2, 3:45 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Shelby, Tipton | 45 min |
| Feb 2, 4:06 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Fayette, Shelby | 114 min |
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.