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Special Weather Statement, NWS Memphis, TN

August 4, 2016Tipton County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this special weather statement at Aug 4, 2016, 2:45 PM CDT for Tipton County, Tennessee. It was in force for 15 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 4, 2016, 2:45 PM CDT (19:45 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 2016, 3:00 PM CDT
In force: 15 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN

County Tipton County, TN

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:45 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 75 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: 1704 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1358 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 23 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 Aug 4, 12:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 12:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 4, 12:39 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 4, 2:45 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
245 PM CDT THU AUG 4 2016

TNZ049-042000-
TIPTON TN-
245 PM CDT THU AUG 4 2016

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 300 PM CDT FOR...

SOUTH CENTRAL TIPTON COUNTY IN WESTERN TENNESSEE...

AT 245 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING WINDS AT LEAST 40 MPH
WAS LOCATED NEAR MUNFORD...OR 10 MILES SOUTH OF FORT PILLOW STATE
PARK. THIS STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.

PEOPLE IN SOUTH CENTRAL TIPTON COUNTY SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM
CLOSELY.

LAT...LON 3554 8979 3542 8971 3540 8995 3552 8994
      3552 8993 3551 8992 3552 8991 3554 8991
      3555 8990
TIME...MOT...LOC 1945Z 238DEG 2KT 3548 8985

JOHNSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 4, 11:36 AM CDT	Excessive Heat Warning	MEG	Dyer, Lake, Lauderdale, Obion, Shelby, Tipton	32 hr
Aug 4, 4:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Decatur	35 min
Aug 4, 4:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Marshall	35 min
Aug 4, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tishomingo	27 min
Aug 4, 5:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Lee	27 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Tennessee, 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.