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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Memphis, TN

June 17, 2019Carroll County, Gibson County, Madison County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2019, 4:46 PM CDT for Carroll County, Gibson County, Madison County, Tennessee. It was in force for 19 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 17, 2019, 4:46 PM CDT (21:46 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2019, 5:05 PM CDT
In force: 19 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Carroll County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Madison County, TN

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:49 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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 195 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: 745 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -73 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 943 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 16, 6:28 PM CDT, 22 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 6:28 PM CDT, 22 hours 18 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 17, 3:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Pontotoc	52 min
Jun 17, 3:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Union	33 min
Jun 17, 4:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Tippah	24 min
Jun 17, 4:42 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Tippah, Union	3 hr
Jun 17, 4:49 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Calhoun	3 hr
Jun 17, 4:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Tippah	33 min
Jun 17, 5:29 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Chickasaw, Pontotoc	2 hr
Jun 17, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chickasaw, Monroe	44 min
Jun 17, 2:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Chester	31 min
Jun 17, 3:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Henderson	28 min
Jun 17, 3:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Henderson	32 min
Jun 17, 4:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Decatur	28 min
Jun 17, 4:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Carroll	33 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.