Afternoon and evening showers and thunderstorms developed over West Tennessee on June 26, 2007 due to daytime heating. Some of the thunderstorms became severe producing large hail and damaging winds.
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The episode as NWS MEG wrote it up.
Afternoon and evening showers and thunderstorms developed over West Tennessee on June 26, 2007 due to daytime heating. Some of the thunderstorms became severe producing large hail and damaging winds.
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 Jun 26, 9:24 AM CST, 3 hours 31 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1024 AM CDT TUE JUN 26 2007 .UPDATE... WILL UPDATE TO ADJUST RAIN CHANCES...MAINLY TO LOWER THEM IN MOST AREAS...AND TO INCREASE HIGH TEMPERATURES TODAY. && .DISCUSSION... HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS WITH ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE. AT 1015 AM CDT ACROSS THE MIDSOUTH...DRY CONDITIONS WERE OCCURRING. UNDER PARTLY TO MOSTLY SUNNY SKIES...SURFACE TEMPERATURES RANGED FROM THE UPPER 70S NEAR UNION CITY TN TO THE UPPER 80S NEAR MEMPHIS TN. THE AIR WAS HUMID WITH SURFACE DEWPOINTS AROUND 70 DEGREES. FOR THE REST OF TODAY...THINK THAT SCATTERED CONVECTION WILL MAINLY BE CONFINED TO TWO AREAS. THE FIRST AREA IS EAST OF A UNION CITY TN TO TUPELO MS LINE...AND THE OTHER IS WEST OF A WALNUT GROVE AR TO CLARKSDALE MS LINE. IN THESE AREAS... MOISTURE CONVERGENCE WILL BE ENHANCED BEST...THUS WILL KEEP 30 TO 50 RAIN CHANCES. DEVELOPMENT SHOULD BEGIN BY NOON CDT AS CONVECTIVE TEMPERATURES IN THE UPPER 80S ARE REACHED. BETWEEN THESE AREAS INCLUDING MEMPHIS TN...JACKSON TN...AND OXFORD MS...BELIEVE RAIN CHANCES WILL BE REDUCED AS SLIGHTLY WARMER/DRIER AIR ALOFT SHOWN BY WATER VAPOR SATELLITE IMAGERY MAY SERVE AS A WEAK CAP TO LIMIT CONVECTION. WILL LOWER RAIN CHANCES TO 20 OR 30 PERCENT IN THIS AREA. ANY STORM THAT DEVELOPS MAY BE STRONG...OR PERHAPS EVEN SEVERE... WITH GUSTY WINDS UP TO 60 MPH...SMALL HAIL...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL OF 1 TO 3 INCHES AS THE AIR WILL BE VERY UNSTABLE... LIFTED INDICES -4 TO -8 AND SURFACE BASED CAPES 1800 TO 2800 J/KG. THE STORMS WILL BE UNORGANIZED AND PULSE IN NATURE AS ATMOSPHERIC WINDS REMAIN VERY WEAK. ANY STORM WILL LIKELY DISSIPATE AFTER 8 PM CDT. AS A RESULT OF LOWERING RAIN CHANCES TODAY AND MORE MORNING SUN OCCURRING...WILL RAISE TEMPERATURES A FEW DEGREES. EXPECT HIGHS TO MAINLY BE IN THE 90 TO 95 DEGREE RANGE. HEAT INDICES WILL APPROACH 100 DEGREES. UPDATE WILL BE OUT SHORTLY. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 246 AM CDT TUE JUN 26 2007/ DISCUSSION... SMALL AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS PERSIST OVER SOUTHEAST CORNER OF THE FORECAST AREA AND WAS MOVING SLOWLY NORTHEAST INTO ALABAMA. TEMPERATURES WERE MAINLY IN THE 70S OVER THE FORECAST AREA. WEAK UPPER LOW WAS OVER THE OKLAHOMA/TEXAS BORDER EARLY THIS MORNING. THIS FEATURE IS NOT EXPECTED TO MOVE VERY MUCH OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. THE RESULT WILL BE WEATHER SIMILAR TO MONDAY WITH A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TODAY THROUGH THURSDAY. THE MOST LIKELY TIME FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL BE DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS. HAD A COUPLE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY AFTERNOON AND CANT COMPLETELY RULE OUT MORE ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS. BY FRIDAY... WEAK COLD FRONT MOVES INTO THE REGION SO THERE WILL BE A CONTINUED THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS INTO SATURDAY. SOMEWHAT DRIER AIR WILL MOVE IN BEHIND THE FRONT SO EXPECTING DRY WEATHER STARTING SATURDAY NIGHT AND CONTINUING INTO THE BEGINNING OF NEXT WEEK. && .MEG WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...NONE. MO...NONE. MS...NONE. TN...NONE. && MBS
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 307 AM CDT TUE JUN 26 2007 ARZ008-009-017-018-026>028-035-036-048-049-058-MOZ113-115- MSZ001>017-020>024-TNZ001>004-019>021-048>055-088>092-271015- ALCORN-BENTON(MS)-CALHOUN-CARROLL-CHESTER-CHICKASAW-CLAY-COAHOMA- CRAIGHEAD-CRITTENDEN-CROCKETT-CROSS-DESOTO-DECATUR-DUNKLIN-DYER- FAYETTE-GIBSON-GREENE-HARDEMAN-HARDIN-HAYWOOD-HENDERSON-HENRY- ITAWAMBA-LAFAYETTE-LAKE-LAUDERDALE-LAWRENCE-LEE(AR)-LEE(MS)- MADISON-MARSHALL-MCNAIRY-MISSISSIPPI-MONROE-OBION-PANOLA-PEMISCOT- PHILLIPS-POINSETT-PONTOTOC-PRENTISS-QUITMAN-RANDOLPH-SHELBY- ST. FRANCIS-TALLAHATCHIE-TATE-TIPPAH-TIPTON-TISHOMINGO-TUNICA- UNION-WEAKLEY-YALOBUSHA- 307 AM CDT TUE JUN 26 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST ARKANSAS... THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL...NORTH MISSISSIPPI...AND WEST TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE ENTIRE MIDSOUTH TODAY...MAINLY BETWEEN 11 AM AND 8 PM. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL OF 1 TO 3 INCHES...WINDS GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH AND SMALL HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE ENTIRE MIDSOUTH WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...MAINLY BETWEEN 11 AM AND 8 PM. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL OF 1 TO 3 INCHES...WINDS GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH AND SMALL HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 134 PM CDT TUE JUN 26 2007 TNZ088-261900- SHELBY TN- 134 PM CDT TUE JUN 26 2007 THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS FOR...SHELBY COUNTY. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED OVER GERMANTOWN AT 134 PM CDT. THE STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. PEOPLE IN SHELBY COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITIES OF BARTLETT AND GERMANTOWN...SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY..
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 33 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:55 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Straight line winds knocked a few trees down on Highway 194, 3 miles north of Oakland.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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