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Special Weather Statement, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this special weather statement at Dec 5, 2017, 1:08 AM CST for 6 counties in Tennessee; DeSoto County, Mississippi. It was in force for 52 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
- Dec 5, 2017, 1:08 AM CST (07:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 5, 2017, 2:00 AM CST
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
Counties DeSoto County, MS, Crockett County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Tipton County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:07 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 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 115 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -104 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 835 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 240 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 252 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted.
690
WWUS84 KMEG 050708
SPSMEG
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Memphis TN
108 AM CST TUE DEC 5 2017
ARZ036-MSZ001-TNZ019-020-048>051-088-089-050800-
Crittenden AR-DeSoto MS-Tipton TN-Fayette TN-Crockett TN-
Lauderdale TN-Shelby TN-Dyer TN-Gibson TN-Haywood TN-
108 AM CST TUE DEC 5 2017
...A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED UNTIL 200 AM CST
FOR...
Southeastern Crittenden County in eastern Arkansas...
DeSoto County in northwestern Mississippi...
Eastern Tipton County in western Tennessee...
Fayette County in western Tennessee...
Crockett County in western Tennessee...
Southeastern Lauderdale County in western Tennessee...
Shelby County in western Tennessee...
Southeastern Dyer County in western Tennessee...
Central Gibson County in western Tennessee...
Haywood County in western Tennessee...
At 107 AM CST...a line of strong thunderstorms producing winds of 30
to 40 mph was located from 8 miles southeast of Newbern to
Dixonville to near Lake Cormorant. Movement was east at 35 mph.
Very heavy rain along with continuous cloud to ground lightning are
also possible with this thunderstorm.
People in southeastern Crittenden...DeSoto...eastern Tipton...
Fayette...Crockett...southeastern Lauderdale...Shelby...southeastern
Dyer...central Gibson and Haywood Counties should monitor this storm
closely.
LAT...LON 3606 8869 3579 8887 3580 8892 3579 8890
3567 8902 3568 8906 3569 8907 3554 8907
3499 8953 3499 8972 3477 8972 3489 9038
3609 8920
TIME...MOT...LOC 0707Z 280DEG 31KT 3603 8916 3542 8976 3494 9023
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 5, 1:57 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Carroll, Chester, Fayette, Hardeman, Henderson, Madison | 63 min |
| Dec 4, 9:53 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Lawrence | 52 min |
| Dec 4, 10:24 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Craighead, Poinsett | 51 min |
| Dec 4, 11:12 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Cross, Poinsett | 63 min |
| Dec 4, 11:53 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Crittenden, Mississippi, St. Francis | 67 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.