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Special Weather Statement, NWS Memphis, TN

August 14, 2021Lee County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this special weather statement at Aug 14, 2021, 8:10 PM CDT for Lee County, Mississippi. It was in force for 35 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 14, 2021, 8:10 PM CDT (01:10 UTC)
Expired: Aug 14, 2021, 8:45 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Hail: 0.25 in
Wind: 50

County Lee County, MS

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 200 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: 1806 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1442 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 14, 7:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Yalobusha	5 hr
Aug 14, 7:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Monroe	28 min
Aug 14, 7:54 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Calhoun, Yalobusha	4 hr
Aug 15, 1:26 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Alcorn, Tishomingo	4 hr
Aug 15, 1:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Tishomingo	34 min
Aug 15, 3:36 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Prentiss, Tishomingo	3 hr
Aug 15, 4:42 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Lafayette	2 hr
Aug 15, 12:41 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Hardin	43 min
Aug 15, 1:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Hardin	4 hr

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Mississippi, 2021 Every special weather statement in 2021

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.