Alert archive / Tennessee / Special Weather Statements in 2016
Special Weather Statement, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this special weather statement at Aug 2, 2016, 4:13 PM CDT for Carroll County, Tennessee. It was in force for 47 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 2, 2016, 4:13 PM CDT (21:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2016, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
County Carroll County, TN
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 625 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -128 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1604 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
997
WWUS84 KMEG 022113
SPSMEG
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
413 PM CDT TUE AUG 2 2016
TNZ003-020-021-052-054-022200-
CARROLL TN-WEAKLEY TN-MADISON TN-GIBSON TN-HENDERSON TN-
413 PM CDT TUE AUG 2 2016
...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR...
CARROLL COUNTY IN WESTERN TENNESSEE...
SOUTHEASTERN WEAKLEY COUNTY IN WESTERN TENNESSEE...
NORTHEASTERN MADISON COUNTY IN WESTERN TENNESSEE...
EASTERN GIBSON COUNTY IN WESTERN TENNESSEE...
NORTHWESTERN HENDERSON COUNTY IN WESTERN TENNESSEE...
AT 413 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING PEA SIZE HAIL OR
LARGER AND WINDS AT LEAST 40 MPH WAS LOCATED NEAR MILAN
VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE
ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.
PEOPLE IN CARROLL...SOUTHEASTERN WEAKLEY...NORTHEASTERN MADISON...
EASTERN GIBSON AND NORTHWESTERN HENDERSON COUNTIES SHOULD MONITOR
THIS STORM CLOSELY.
LAT...LON 3578 8889 3579 8891 3617 8883 3617 8853
3615 8853 3615 8839 3577 8839
TIME...MOT...LOC 2113Z 297DEG 29KT 3586 8882
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 3:03 PM CDT | Heat Advisory | MEG | Chester, McNairy, Shelby, Tipton | 4 days |
| Aug 2, 4:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Chester, Madison | 50 min |
| Aug 2, 4:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chester, Hardeman, Madison | 38 min |
| Aug 2, 4:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Madison | 31 min |
| Aug 2, 4:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Chester, Gibson, Madison | 2 hr |
| Aug 2, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chester, Hardeman, Madison | 18 min |
| Aug 2, 4:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Crockett | 48 min |
| Aug 2, 5:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Hardeman | 45 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.