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Special Weather Statement, NWS Memphis, TN

July 27, 2026Benton County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this special weather statement at Jul 27, 2026, 2:21 AM CDT for Benton County, Tennessee. 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: Jul 27, 2026, 2:21 AM CDT (07:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 27, 2026, 2:45 AM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 50

County Benton County, TN

The radar

The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 131 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: 2362 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1178 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 87 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 4.7

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The text

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 26, 8:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, Carroll, Henry	42 min
Jul 26, 9:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Benton, Henry	26 min
Jul 26, 10:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Benton	43 min
Jul 26, 10:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Henry	45 min
Jul 26, 10:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Decatur, Henderson	41 min
Jul 26, 10:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, Decatur	48 min
Jul 26, 11:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Decatur	45 min
Jul 27, 1:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Henry	39 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Tennessee, 2026 Every special weather statement in 2026

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.