1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Aug 11, 1:00 PM CST, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 200 PM CDT SAT AUG 11 2001 A COLD FRONT IS CURRENTLY NEAR THE NRN BORDER OF THE CWA. SCT TSTMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER PARTS OF THE AREA...ESPECIALLY OVER WRN TN. EXPECT THE COLD FRONT TO MOVE INTO THE NRN THIRD OF THE FCST AREA TNT...MOVE INTO THE SRN THIRD OF THE FCST AREA BY SUNDAY EVENING... AND ACTUALLY MOVE SOUTH OF THE ENTIRE FCST AREA BY 12Z MONDAY. WEAK CONVERGENCE AND HIGH PW VALUES WILL JUSTIFY 30-50 POPS ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE FRONT. A SHORTWAVE MOVING E-SE THROUGH THE MS DELTA COULD ALSO ENHANCE TSTM DEVELOPMENT IN THE SW PART OF THE FCST AREA THIS EVENING. A DRIER AIRMASS WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA FROM THE NORTH MONDAY. EXPECT NO TSTMS MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY AS A HIGH DOMINATES THE AREA. THE NEXT CHC OF TSTMS WILL BE FRIDAY AS THE NEXT COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE AREA. PRELIM VALUES MEM 75/88/71/88 4520 MKL 72/88/68/87 4310 JBR 73/88/68/88 4310 TUP 74/88/73/87 4541 .MEG...NONE. 012
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 86 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:28 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Eleven people were injured when lightning struck during a burial ceremony at a cemetery.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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