1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Sep 13, 2:30 AM CST, 1 hour earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 330 AM CDT THU SEP 13 2001 INVERTED TROUGH BRINGING ENOUGH ENERGY AND MOISTURE CONVERGENCE TO AREA EAST OF MEMPHIS AND NORTHEAST MS TO BRING THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA. ETA SEEMED TO HAVE CAUGHT PART OF THIS. USING THIS MODEL... EXPECT THESE STORMS TO LAST INTO THE MORNING AND MOVE W/SW. SOME OF THE STORMS HAVE BEEN SEVERE BEFORE 3 AM. LIGHTNING HAS BEEN INTENSE SINCE THEY BACK BUILT INTO THE CWA OUT OF MIDDLE TN. OTHERWISE...FRONT TO COME THROUGH TNGT AND WE GO BACK TO DRY WEATHER OVER WHOLE AREA. WE WILL SEE SOME LOWER 50S FROM THIS FRONT FRI NIGHT. PRELIM NUMBERS MEM 90/67/85/62/78 0000 MKL 88/60/80/57/76 0000 JBR 90/62/82/55/77 0000 TUP 86/65/83/60/82 4000 .MEG...NONE.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
305 AM CDT THU SEP 13 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0215 AM BATH SPRINGS TN 0.75 INCH HAIL
09/13/01 DECATUR REPORTED BY DECATUR
COUNTY 911.
0215 AM 2SW BATH SPRINGS TN 0.88 INCH HAIL
09/13/01 DECATUR REPORTED BY DECATUR
COUNTY 911.
0225 AM 2S SARDIS TN 0.75 INCH HAIL
09/13/01 HARDIN REPORTED BY HARDIN COUNTY
CENTRAL DISPATCH.
0228 AM SALTILLO TN WIND DAMAGE
09/13/01 HARDIN TREES DOWN. REPORTED BY
HARDIN COUNTY CENTRAL
DISPATCH.
0234 AM SALTILLO TN 0.75 INCH HAIL
09/13/01 HARDIN REPORTED BY HARDIN COUNTY
CENTRAL DISPATCH.The Memphis radar (KNQA), 71 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 09:32 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
The tornado touched down in the north part of Benton county and moved northeast. The tornado knocked down several trees along its path.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Mississippi in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Mississippi, 2001Warnings in Mississippi, September 2001
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