1 thunderstorm wind, 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 Aug 13, 2:26 PM CST, 3 hours 1 minute earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 326 PM CDT TUE AUG 13 2002 REGIONAL RADAR LOOP THIS AFTN WAS SHOWING A LINE OF TSTMS EXTENDING FROM WRN KY SWWD THRU AR INTO ERN OK. THE TREND OVER THE PAST HOUR HAS SHOWN WEAKENING...BUT EXPECT THESE STORMS TO MOVE INTO NW SXNS OF THE FA THIS EVENING BRINGING SOME LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS. RAINFALL AMOUNTS HAVE BEEN HEAVY WITH THE STORMS OVR MO TODAY. SFC ANALYSIS PLACES THE ACTUAL FNT FROM IL SWWD THRU MO INTO OK. TEMPS WERE FAIRLY UNIFORM WITH READINGS IN THE MID/UPR 80S AND DPTS GENERALLY IN THE 70S. THE UPR TROF OVR THE CNTRL CONUS WILL AMPLIFY FURTHER DURING THE NEXT 24 HRS AND THEN BEGIN TO WEAKEN WED NITE INTO THUR. THE ASSOCIATED SFC FNT WILL MOVE SEWD THRU MO OVERNITE AND STALL ACROSS NRN SXNS OF THE FA WED MORNING. WITH LARGE SCALE FORCING AND DEEP MOIST PRESENT WILL CONT LIKELY POPS ON WED FOR ALL AREAS AND INTO WED NITE FOR SE SXNS. EXPECT LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS AGAIN AS PW VALUES WILL EXCEED 2 INCHES ACROSS THE FA. TIME SXNS SHOW DRYING IN THE MID/UPR LVLS THUR THRU FRI AND THEN A RETURN OF DEEP MOIST FOR THE WEEKEND TO THE REGION. WILL LEAVE THE CURRENT EXTENDED FCST AS IS WITH SCTD TSTMS ACROSS SRN SXNS THRU SAT AND THEN DRY SUN THRU TUES ALL AREAS AS UPR RIDGING BUILDS WWD INTO THE SE STATES. WILL TAKE A BLEND OF GUIDANCE TEMPS. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... MEM 073/086 071/090 075 574 MKL 071/084 069/088 071 575 JBR 070/084 067/089 072 772 TUP 072/087 071/088 073 476 .MEG...NONE.
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 34 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:27 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Several large tree limbs were blown down.
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