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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 384, NWS Memphis, TN

June 28, 2025Haywood County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 2025, 2:16 PM CDT for Haywood County, Tennessee. It was in force for 29 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 28, 2025, 2:16 PM CDT (19:16 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 2025, 2:45 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Haywood County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 249 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: 1469 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 769 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 28, 12:33 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 12:33 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 28, 1:50 PM CDT, 26 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 28, 2:06 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Memphis TN
206 PM CDT Sat Jun 28 2025

TNZ050-281930-
Haywood TN-
206 PM CDT Sat Jun 28 2025

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT SOUTHERN HAYWOOD COUNTY THROUGH
230 PM CDT...

At 206 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Dancyville, or 10 miles south of Brownsville, moving northeast at 10
mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and half inch hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is
         possible.

Locations impacted include...
Brownsville, Hillville, Dancyville, Stanton, Asbury, Shepp, Hickory
Point, Sunnyhill, and Morton Hill.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.

&&

LAT...LON 3543 8918 3540 8918 3540 8932 3548 8942
      3565 8916 3545 8908 3543 8908
TIME...MOT...LOC 1906Z 238DEG 8KT 3544 8927

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH

MJ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 7:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Carroll	25 min
Jun 27, 7:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Carroll	35 min
Jun 28, 7:34 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Fayette, Hardeman	104 min
Jun 28, 1:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Fayette	25 min
Jun 28, 2:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Haywood	24 min
Jun 28, 3:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Haywood	26 min
Jun 28, 5:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Hardin	9 min
Jun 28, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Shelby	44 min
Jun 28, 5:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Shelby	31 min
Jun 28, 5:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Dyer, Lauderdale	41 min
Jun 28, 5:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Tipton	26 min
Jun 28, 5:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Shelby	21 min
Jun 28, 5:58 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Shelby	2 hr
Jun 28, 6:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Shelby	36 min
Jun 28, 6:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Fayette	32 min
Jun 28, 4:04 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Lee	3 hr
Jun 28, 5:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	DeSoto	34 min
Jun 27, 8:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Crittenden	31 min
Jun 28, 4:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Mississippi	25 min
Jun 28, 4:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Crittenden	37 min
Jun 28, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lee, St. Francis	39 min
Jun 28, 6:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Lee, St. Francis	29 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.