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Special Weather Statement, NWS Memphis, TN

August 17, 2026Hardin County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this special weather statement at Aug 17, 2026, 3:21 PM CDT for Hardin County, Tennessee. It was in force for 39 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: Aug 17, 2026, 3:21 PM CDT (20:21 UTC)
Expired: Aug 17, 2026, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Hail: 0.25 in
Wind: 50

County Hardin County, TN

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 185 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: 1267 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -114 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1083 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.9

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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
Aug 16, 7:58 PM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	MEG	Fayette, Lauderdale, Shelby, Tipton	24 hr
Aug 17, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Shelby	62 min
Aug 17, 4:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Shelby	58 min
Aug 17, 12:29 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	MEG	Calhoun, Chickasaw, Coahoma, Monroe, Panola, Quitman and 3 more	32 hr
Aug 17, 3:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tunica	58 min
Aug 17, 3:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Tippah	28 min
Aug 17, 4:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Prentiss	24 min
Aug 17, 4:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Tunica	36 min
Aug 17, 4:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Prentiss	7 min
Aug 17, 4:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Tippah	37 min
Aug 17, 5:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Prentiss, Tippah	28 min
Aug 17, 5:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Benton, Marshall	38 min
Aug 17, 5:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Lafayette	24 min
Aug 17, 5:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Benton, Marshall	34 min
Aug 17, 5:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, Marshall, Tippah, Union	55 min
Aug 17, 5:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Pontotoc	29 min
Aug 17, 5:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Monroe	26 min
Aug 17, 6:07 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Alcorn, Lee, Tippah, Union	3 hr
Aug 17, 6:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Lee, Pontotoc	48 min
Aug 17, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe, Pontotoc, Union	47 min
Aug 17, 6:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Monroe	37 min
Aug 17, 3:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Cross	48 min

Nearby

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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.