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Special Weather Statement, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this special weather statement at Dec 5, 2021, 6:54 PM CST for Dunklin County, Missouri. It was in force for 36 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, 2021, 6:54 PM CST (00:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 5, 2021, 7:30 PM CST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Hail
- 0.88 in
- Wind
- 40
County Dunklin County, MO
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 1313 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 793 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 252 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 326 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.2
- Supercell composite
- 19.4
The text
As transmitted.
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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 Dec 5, 6:03 PM CST, 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 5, 6:03 PM CST, 51 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Memphis TN 104 PM CST Sun Dec 5 2021 ARZ009-018-026>028-035-036-048-049-058-MOZ113-115-MSZ001>017- 020>024-TNZ001>004-019>022-048>055-088>092-062115- Alcorn-Benton MS-Benton TN-Calhoun-Carroll-Chester-Chickasaw-Clay- Coahoma-Craighead-Crittenden-Crockett-Cross-DeSoto-Decatur- Dunklin-Dyer-Fayette-Gibson-Greene-Hardeman-Hardin-Haywood- Henderson-Henry-Itawamba-Lafayette-Lake-Lauderdale-Lee AR-Lee MS- Madison-Marshall-McNairy-Mississippi-Monroe-Obion-Panola-Pemiscot- Phillips-Poinsett-Pontotoc-Prentiss-Quitman-Shelby-St. Francis- Tallahatchie-Tate-Tippah-Tipton-Tishomingo-Tunica-Union-Weakley- Yalobusha- 104 PM CST Sun Dec 5 2021 This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of East Arkansas... the Missouri Bootheel...North Mississippi...and West Tennessee. .DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight There is a Slight Risk for severe thunderstorms late tonight and early Monday morning over most of the Midsouth, specifically, north of a line from Charleston to Oxford to Savannah. Primary severe weather threat will be damaging winds. Secondary threats include brief tornadoes and flash flooding. Additionally, a secondary threat for large hail will exist over northeast Arkansas and the Missouri bootheel in the early overnight. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday There is a Marginal Risk for severe thunderstorms Monday morning, over east central Arkansas, most of north Mississippi, and portions of southwest Tennessee near the Tennessee River. Primary threat will be damaging winds. Secondary threat will be flash flooding. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be needed late tonight.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Dec 5, 4:00 PM CST, 2 hours 54 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Memphis TN
400 PM CST Sun Dec 5 2021
TNZ052-053-090-052230-
Hardeman TN-Chester TN-Madison TN-
400 PM CST Sun Dec 5 2021
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northeastern
Hardeman, south central Madison and west central Chester Counties
through 430 PM CST...
At 400 PM CST, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Chickasaw State Forest, moving northeast at 30 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Henderson, Chickasaw State Park, Chickasaw State Forest, Silerton,
Toone, Medon, Deanburg, Pinson, Teague, Montezuma and Parkburg.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
&&
LAT...LON 3529 8901 3536 8908 3554 8874 3537 8860
TIME...MOT...LOC 2200Z 244DEG 27KT 3537 8892
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPHLocal storm report, Dec 5, 4:45 PM CST, 2 hours 9 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 6, 4:45 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Benton, Tippah | 30 min |
| Dec 6, 4:58 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Lafayette, Union | 32 min |
| Dec 6, 5:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Marshall, Pontotoc, Union | 36 min |
| Dec 6, 5:11 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Alcorn, Tippah | 34 min |
| Dec 6, 5:15 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Tallahatchie, Yalobusha | 30 min |
| Dec 6, 5:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Lee, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Tippah, Tishomingo and 1 more | 40 min |
| Dec 6, 5:47 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Calhoun, Lee, Pontotoc | 43 min |
| Dec 6, 6:15 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Itawamba, Lee | 30 min |
| Dec 6, 6:32 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Calhoun, Chickasaw | 28 min |
| Dec 6, 7:04 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | MEG | Calhoun, Chickasaw, Yalobusha | 3 hr |
| Dec 6, 2:55 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Lake, Obion | 35 min |
| Dec 6, 3:10 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Shelby, Tipton | 35 min |
| Dec 6, 3:28 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Dyer, Weakley | 32 min |
| Dec 6, 3:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Benton, Henry, Weakley | 31 min |
| Dec 6, 3:45 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Fayette, Haywood, Madison | 30 min |
| Dec 6, 4:25 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | MEG | Crockett, Haywood, Lauderdale, Tipton | 2 hr |
| Dec 6, 4:36 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Carroll, Henderson, Madison | 24 min |
| Dec 6, 1:36 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Clay | 24 min |
| Dec 6, 2:00 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Clay | 30 min |
| Dec 6, 2:29 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Dunklin, Pemiscot | 31 min |
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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.