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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 238
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 28, 2018, 8:55 PM CDT for 27 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 28, 2018, 8:55 PM CDT (01:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2018, 12:56 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 27 counties
Benton County, TN, Carroll County, TN, Cheatham County, TN, Chester County, TN, Crockett County, TN, Decatur County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Giles County, TN, Hardeman County, TN, Hardin County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Henderson County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Madison County, TN, Maury County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Perry County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Tipton County, TN, Wayne County, TN, Williamson County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:56 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.
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 5%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 5%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 40%
Warnings issued inside it
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Benton, Carroll, Gibson, Henry, Weakley | 49 min |
| Jun 28, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery, Stewart | 45 min |
| Jun 28, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crockett, Dyer, Lake, Obion | 68 min |
| Jun 28, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Benton, Henry, Obion, Weakley | 33 min |
| Jun 28, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Benton, Carroll, Crockett, Decatur, Gibson, Henderson and 4 more | 65 min |
| Jun 28, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crockett, Dyer, Gibson, Lake, Lauderdale, Obion | 59 min |
| Jun 28, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crockett, Dyer, Hardeman, Haywood, Lauderdale, Tipton | 62 min |
| Jun 28, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Gibson, Hardeman and 4 more | 48 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KBYH), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 2733 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1855 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 7:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clarke, George, Greene, Jackson, Jasper, Jones and 4 more | 89 min |
| Jun 28, 8:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, DeSoto, Marshall, Prentiss, Tippah and 1 more | 96 min |
| Jun 28, 11:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, DeSoto, Marshall, Tippah | 90 min |
| Jun 28, 7:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dyer, Gibson, Henry, Lake, Obion, Weakley | 90 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.