1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 5, 2:18 PM CST, 4 hours 52 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 318 PM CDT WED JUN 5 2002 CURRENT SFC ANALYSIS SHOWING PRE FRONTAL TROF JUST E OF THE MS RIVER. THIS WAS THE FOCUS FOR SCT CONVECTIVE ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. COLD FRONT STILL LAGGING BACK OVER CENTRAL AR WITH LATEST RADAR DATA FROM LZK SHOWING SOME DEVELOPMENT NOW TAKING PLACE ALONG IT. NOT A LOT OF UPPER SUPPORT TO KEEP CONVECTION GOING OVERNIGHT BUT WILL GO WITH HI CHC POPS ALL ZONES. COLD FRONT SHOULD BE THROUGH MOST OF FA BY THU AM. STILL A CHC OF SCT SHRAS/TSRAS NEAR AND JUST BEHIND THE FRONT AT LEAST EARLY ON. DRIER AIR WILL THEN FILTER INTO THE AREA DURING THE AFTERNOON ON NORTHERLY WINDS. SEASONAL CONDITIONS ON TAP FOR FRIDAY. UPPER RIDGE WILL TRY TO BUILD BACK INTO AREA OVER THE WEEKEND WITH TEMPS WARMING BACK INTO UPPER 80S. NOT MUCH CONFIDENCE IN EXTENDED PORTION OF FORECAST SO WILL NOT MAKE ANY SIG CHANGES TO ONGOING FCST. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... MEM 71/83/66/86/68 5300 MKL 66/80/60/84/61 5300 JBR 67/82/62/86/63 5100 TUP 71/84/64/87/65 5400 .MEG...NONE.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
321 PM CDT WED JUN 05 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0240 PM 1NE JACKSON TN 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/05/02 MADISON
0245 PM 1NE JACKSON TN WIND DAMAGE
06/05/02 MADISON TREES AND POWERLINES
DOWN.The Memphis radar (KNQA), 48 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:10 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
The tornado touched down near Tyronza and moved slowly east. Several power poles were knocked down.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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