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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 170, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 2026, 8:27 PM CDT for 5 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 48 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
- Jul 9, 2026, 8:27 PM CDT (01:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2026, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Carroll County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Henry County, TN, Obion County, TN, Weakley County, TN
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 2197 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1508 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 8:00 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MEG | Lake, Obion | 3 hr |
| Jul 9, 9:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Benton, Carroll, Henry | 49 min |
| Jul 10, 3:11 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Obion | 34 min |
| Jul 10, 5:16 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Lake, Obion | 29 min |
| Jul 10, 5:41 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Lake, Obion | 34 min |
| Jul 10, 6:46 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MEG | Henry, Lake, Obion, Weakley | 3 hr |
| Jul 10, 7:52 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MEG | Carroll, Dyer, Gibson, Lake, Obion, Weakley | 3 hr |
| Jul 10, 9:32 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Obion, Weakley | 5 hr |
| Jul 10, 9:45 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MEG | Henry, Lake, Obion, Weakley | 5 hr |
| Jul 10, 11:11 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Dyer, Gibson, Obion | 47 hr |
| Jul 10, 11:59 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Fayette | 46 min |
| Jul 10, 12:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Fayette | 40 min |
| Jul 10, 1:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Benton, Marshall | 36 min |
| Jul 10, 1:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Alcorn, Benton, Tippah | 42 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.