1 strong 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 Feb 3, 1:53 PM CST, 7 hours 22 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 153 PM CST MON FEB 3 2003 COLD FRONT MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL ARKANSAS AT MID-AFTERNOON... NEAR A UNO-HOT LINE. TIMING ON FRONTAL PASSAGE STILL LOOKS PRETTY GOOD. OF SOME CONCERN IS THINNING CLOUD DECK JUST AHEAD OF FRONT...WHICH HAS ALLOWED TEMPERATURES TO CLIMB TO 70 AT LIT/BVX. AIRMASS HAS BECOME MORE UNSTABLE OVER THAT AREA WITH LIS OF -3 OR SO NEAR HOT. WHILE THERE IS A PRETTY SOLID AREA OF LIGHT RAIN ACROSS THE CWA...PRECIPITATION IS MUCH MORE SCATTERED ACROSS AR AT 1930Z. POPS AND WORDING OF FIRST PERIOD (CONVECTIVE RELATED) WILL PROBABLY BE HELD OFF UNTIL AROUND 21Z. FRONT SHOULD BE WELL EAST OF CWA BY MORNING...AND LOW LEVEL MOISTURE SHOULD BE MOVING EAST OF THE CWA BY MID-MORNING AT THE LATEST. WEATHER SHOULD BE DRY THROUGH THE DAY WEDNESDAY BEFORE MOISTURE BEGINS TO RETURN IN SOUTHERN STREAM. INVERTED TROF FORECAST TO SET UP ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST U.S. ON THURSDAY. SOME QUESTION AS TO EXACTLY WHERE THE PRECIP WILL SET UP...DEPENDING ON WHICH MODEL SOLUTION IS INVOLVED. TOO FAR OUT TO LOOK AT AN ETA SOUNDING...LACK OF RESOLUTION AT LOWER LEVELS ON GFS AWIPS SOUNDING AT THAT TIME...SO WILL KEEP CURRENT FORECAST. BY TOMORROW...IT WILL BE IN THE SCOPE OF THE ETA MODEL...AND WILL HAVE A MUCH BETTER LOOK AT LOWER LAYERS AND PRECIP TYPES. GFS SOLUTION TENDS TO KEEP US MORE IN THE SOUTHERN STREAM THE NEXT WEEK OR SO. THIS WILL EFFECTIVELY KEEP THE REFRIGERATED AIR TO THE NORTH AND NORTHEAST OF US. TEMPS STILL WILL BE BELOW NORMAL IN THE EXTENDED TIME FRAME...BUT NOT QUITE AT THE LEVELS OF THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS. 12Z RUN OF GFS WOULD INDICATE WEATHER SHOULD BE MAINLY DRY THROUGH AT LEAST DAY 7 AFTER THURSDAYS EVENT. THIS RUN ALSO INDICATES RIDGE OVER WEST COAST WILL BREAK DOWN...AT LEAST TEMPORARILY...BY ABOUT DAY 10 OR 11. THIS WOULD BRING US INTO A WETTER/MILDER PATTERN. .MEG...NONE. WAGNER
ARZ008-009-017-018-026>028-035-036-048-049-058-MOZ113-115-MSZ001>017- 020>024-TNZ001>004-019>021-048>055-088>092-041100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 815 PM CST MON FEB 3 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST ARKANSAS...NORTH MISSISSIPPI...WEST TENNESSEE AND THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL. .DAY ONE... A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR THE ENTIRE MID-SOUTH THIS EVENING. SUSTAINED WINDS WILL BE OVER 25 MPH AT TIMES WITH GUSTS NEAR 40 MPH. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS SOUTHEAST OF A PARIS...JACKSON...MEMPHIS AND CLARKSDALE LINE UNTIL MIDNIGHT. THIS AREA INCLUDES SAVANNAH...CORINTH...OXFORD AND TUPELO. DAMAGING STRAIGHT-LINE WINDS IS THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THERE IS A CHANCE OF RAIN OR SNOW ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE MID SOUTH AND A CHANCE OF LIGHT SNOW ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF ON THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED IN SOUTHEASTERN PARTS OF THE MIDSOUTH THROUGH LATE THIS EVENING. SWC
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 strong wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Some power lines were blown down due to high winds.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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