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Special Weather Statement, NWS Memphis, TN

May 9, 2024Tate County, Tunica County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this special weather statement at May 9, 2024, 5:21 AM CDT for Tate County, Tunica County, Mississippi. It was in force for 24 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: May 9, 2024, 5:21 AM CDT (10:21 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 2024, 5:45 AM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Hail: 0.88 in
Wind: 30

Counties Tate County, MS, Tunica County, MS

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:20 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 34 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: 3301 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 746 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 135 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 221 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.9
Supercell composite: 13.7

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

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 May 9, 3:54 AM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 9, 3:54 AM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 9, 3:51 AM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 9, 3:58 AM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 9, 4:22 AM CDT, 59 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 9, 4:23 AM CDT, 58 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 9, 4:24 AM CDT, 57 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 9, 5:21 AM CDT, 0 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
May 8, 11:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lake, Obion, Weakley	52 min
May 9, 12:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MEG	Shelby, Tipton	45 min
May 9, 12:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crockett, Dyer, Gibson, Haywood, Lauderdale	46 min
May 9, 12:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Henry, Obion, Weakley	30 min
May 9, 12:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Haywood, Lauderdale, Madison, Tipton	38 min
May 9, 12:46 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Shelby	3 hr
May 9, 12:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Fayette, Shelby, Tipton	44 min
May 9, 12:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, Carroll, Gibson, Henry, Weakley	51 min
May 9, 12:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Henry	15 min
May 9, 1:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MEG	Crockett, Fayette, Hardeman, Haywood, Lauderdale, Shelby and 1 more	39 min
May 9, 1:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, Carroll, Decatur, Henderson, Madison	49 min
May 9, 1:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Hardeman	44 min
May 9, 2:12 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Shelby	3 hr
May 9, 2:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Chester, Decatur, Hardin, McNairy	35 min
May 9, 3:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Shelby	46 min
May 9, 4:24 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Fayette	36 min
May 9, 4:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Fayette, Shelby	50 min
May 9, 11:43 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	MEG	Dyer, Lake, Lauderdale	10 days
May 9, 11:44 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	MEG	Lauderdale, Tipton	12 days
May 9, 4:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	DeSoto	37 min
May 9, 5:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Alcorn, Prentiss, Tippah, Union	33 min
May 8, 8:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Clay	33 min
May 8, 10:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Clay, Greene	41 min
May 8, 11:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Cross	31 min
May 8, 11:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MEG	Crittenden, Cross, St. Francis	41 min
May 8, 11:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Clay, Craighead, Greene	23 min
May 9, 12:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead, Mississippi, Poinsett	41 min
May 9, 12:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crittenden, Cross, St. Francis	46 min
May 9, 3:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	St. Francis	37 min
May 9, 3:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crittenden, Lee, St. Francis	47 min
May 9, 3:26 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Crittenden, Cross, St. Francis	18 min
May 9, 3:43 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Crittenden, Cross, St. Francis	3 hr
May 9, 3:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Lee	32 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.