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Special Weather Statement, NWS Memphis, TN

July 9, 2016Coahoma County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this special weather statement at Jul 9, 2016, 4:52 PM CDT for Coahoma County, Mississippi. It was in force for 23 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: Jul 9, 2016, 4:52 PM CDT (21:52 UTC)
Expired: Jul 9, 2016, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN

County Coahoma County, MS

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KBYH), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 105 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: 33 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -296 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1627 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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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 Jul 9, 2:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 2:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 9, 4:44 PM CDT, 8 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
444 PM CDT SAT JUL 9 2016

ARZ008-009-017-018-026>028-035-036-048-049-058-MOZ113-115-
MSZ001>017-020>024-TNZ001>004-019>022-048>055-088>092-101030-
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-
444 PM CDT SAT JUL 9 2016

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 CONTAINING GUSTY WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY
RAINFALL ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTH MISSISSIPPI INTO
THIS EVENING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE SUNDAY...WITH
DIMINISHING COVERAGE MONDAY. STRONG GUSTY WIND IS POSSIBLE. LOCALLY
HEAVY RAINFALL MAY RESULT IN FLASH FLOODING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 9, 1:35 PM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 9, 2:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 9, 2:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 9, 4:07 PM CDT, 45 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
407 PM CDT SAT JUL 9 2016

MSZ024-092145-
MONROE MS-
407 PM CDT SAT JUL 9 2016

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 445 PM CDT FOR...

MONROE COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI...

AT 407 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING PEA SIZE HAIL OR
LARGER AND WINDS AT LEAST 40 MPH WAS LOCATED OVER ABERDEEN...MOVING
EAST AT 15 MPH.

VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE
ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.

PEOPLE IN MONROE COUNTY SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY.

LAT...LON 3367 8849 3368 8871 3392 8869 3402 8821
      3375 8825 3375 8832 3372 8833 3369 8837
      3369 8839 3367 8842 3367 8846 3365 8851
TIME...MOT...LOC 2107Z 261DEG 14KT 3379 8856

JOHNSON

Special weather statement, Jul 9, 4:52 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
452 PM CDT SAT JUL 9 2016

MSZ010-092215-
COAHOMA MS-
452 PM CDT SAT JUL 9 2016

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 515 PM CDT FOR...

SOUTHEASTERN COAHOMA COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN MISSISSIPPI...

AT 452 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING PEA SIZE HAIL OR
LARGER AND WINDS AT LEAST 40 MPH WAS LOCATED NEAR SHELBY...MOVING
EAST AT 10 MPH.

VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE
ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.

PEOPLE IN SOUTHEASTERN COAHOMA COUNTY SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM
CLOSELY.

LAT...LON 3399 9066 3412 9066 3413 9045 3399 9045
TIME...MOT...LOC 2152Z 287DEG 9KT 3402 9069

JOHNSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 8, 7:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Benton, Henry	21 min
Jul 8, 7:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Henry	29 min
Jul 9, 3:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Dyer, Lauderdale	38 min
Jul 9, 6:37 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Chester, Henderson, Madison	3 hr
Jul 9, 1:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Coahoma	40 min
Jul 9, 2:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Calhoun	40 min
Jul 9, 4:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Monroe	38 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Mississippi, 2016 Every special weather statement 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.