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Special Weather Statement, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this special weather statement at Jul 19, 2016, 3:21 PM CDT for Shelby County, Tennessee. It was in force for 39 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 19, 2016, 3:21 PM CDT (20:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 2016, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
County Shelby County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:24 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
Little Rock, AR (KBYH), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 26 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
- 1905 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1053 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 1 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
897
WWUS84 KMEG 192021
SPSMEG
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
321 PM CDT TUE JUL 19 2016
MSZ001-TNZ088-192100-
DESOTO MS-SHELBY TN-
321 PM CDT TUE JUL 19 2016
...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 400 PM CDT FOR...
NORTHEASTERN DESOTO COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN MISSISSIPPI...
SOUTHEASTERN SHELBY COUNTY IN WESTERN TENNESSEE...
AT 321 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING PEA SIZE HAIL OR
LARGER AND WINDS AT LEAST 40 MPH WAS LOCATED OVER MIDTOWN
MEMPHIS...OR 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF T O FULLER STATE PARK
VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE
ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.
PEOPLE IN NORTHEASTERN DESOTO AND SOUTHEASTERN SHELBY COUNTIES SHOULD
MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY.
LAT...LON 3521 9006 3518 8974 3493 8972 3491 8972
3494 9006
TIME...MOT...LOC 2021Z 328DEG 9KT 3512 8997
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 9:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Chickasaw | 3 hr |
| Jul 19, 3:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Tallahatchie | 50 min |
| Jul 19, 3:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | DeSoto | 41 min |
| Jul 19, 4:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Marshall | 50 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.