An occluded front moved through West Tennessee during the afternoon hours of February 10, 2013 along with widespread showers and a few thunderstorms. A thunderstorm in Decatur County produced lightning that resulted in a minor injury.
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The episode as NWS MEG wrote it up.
An occluded front moved through West Tennessee during the afternoon hours of February 10, 2013 along with widespread showers and a few thunderstorms. A thunderstorm in Decatur County produced lightning that resulted in a minor injury.
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 Feb 10, 11:13 AM CST, 42 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1113 AM CST SUN FEB 10 2013 .UPDATE... UPDATED FOR LOWERING RAIN CHANCES ACROSS THE WEST THIS AFTERNOON. && .DISCUSSION... BACK EDGE OF PRECIPITATION SHIELD MOVING FASTER THAN FORECAST. HAVE LOWERED RAIN CHANCES THIS AFTERNOON FOR THE WESTERN AND CENTRAL ZONES IN THE MIDSOUTH...WITH CURRENT THINKING THAT A FEW SHOWERS MAY REDEVELOP ACROSS CENTRAL ARKANSAS ALONG THE OCCLUDED FRONT AND BECOME WIDELY SCATTERED AS THE ENTER OUR REGION AFTER 2PM. JAB && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 523 AM CST SUN FEB 10 2013/ DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 511 AM CST SUN FEB 10 2013/ A RAINY DAY IN STORE FOR THE MIDSOUTH. EARLY MORNING GOES WATER VAPOR SHOWED A DEEP UPPER LEVEL LONGWAVE TROF CENTERED NEAR NORTH PLATTE NEBRASKA. THE ASSOCIATED 991MB SURFACE LOW WAS NEARLY IN THE SAME LOCATION. A COLD FRONT EXTENDED SOUTH OF THE SURFACE LOW INTO CENTRAL TX... SERVING AS A FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORMS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE ROOTED IN AN UNSTABLE BOUNDARY LAYER AND HAVE PRODUCED SEVERE WEATHER EARLY THIS MORNING. CLOSER TO HOME...DESPITE INCREASING SURFACE DEWPOINTS...NAM AND GFS SOUNDINGS BOTH SHOW A RATHER ROBUST INVERSION BELOW 900MB. MOST...IF NOT ALL OF THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD REMAIN ROOTED AT OR ABOVE THIS LEVEL TODAY...WITH SURFACE BASED CONVECTION MORE LIKELY NEARER TO THE COAST. LAPSE RATES ACROSS THE MIDSOUTH REMAIN MARGINAL...NEARLY MOIST ADIABATIC. ELEVATED CAPE REMAINS BELOW 500 J/KG. WITH THE SURFACE LOW LIFTING INTO MN TODAY AND LITTLE DISCERNIBLE WAVE ALONG THE COLD FRONT...EXPECT SEVERE CHANCES TO REMAIN LIMITED TODAY. TUESDAY NIGHT STILL HOLDS A POTENTIAL FOR SNOW... AS A COMPACT UPPER LOW LIFTS ACROSS THE LOWER MS RIVER VALLEY. NOT A LOT OF MOISTURE AVAILABLE TO THIS SYSTEM... BUT IT SHOULD BE EFFICIENT AT CONVERTING MOISTURE TO PRECIPITATION...GIVEN THE STEEP SATURATED 290K ISENTROPIC UPGLIDE. THERMAL PROFILES BECOME FAVORABLE FOR A RAIN/SNOW MIXTURE OVER NORTHEAST AR TUESDAY EVENING... WITH A TRANSITION TO SNOW OVERNIGHT. NAM SHOWS NORTHEAST AR THROUGH WEST TN IN A DEFORMATION ZONE AFTER MIDNIGHT WEDNESDAY. DEPENDING ON THE TIMING OF PRECIP CHANGEOVER AND SURFACE TEMPERATURES... 2 TO 3 INCHES OF SNOW COULD OCCUR...ALBEIT WITH SOME MELTING. MUCH WILL DEPEND ON SUBTLE DETAILS THAT ARE DIFFICULT TO PIN DOWN AT 72 TO 84 HOURS. AT THIS TIME...OFFICIAL SNOW FORECAST GRIDS CALL FOR 1 ACCUMULATIONS FROM EASTERN AR THROUGH NORTHWEST TN. ARCTIC FRONTAL PASSAGE APPEARS ON TRACK FOR FRIDAY. GFS AND ECMWF ARE DRIER DURING THIS PERIOD THAN WAS THE CASE IN EARLIER MODEL RUNS. HAVE KEEP A MENTION OF FLURRIES IN LATE FRIDAY. MAIN STORY WILL BE COLD...WHICH SHOULD MODERATE CONSIDERABLY BY MONDAY OF NEXT WEEK. UPPER AIR PATTERN REMAINS FAST AND CHANGEABLE AS WE HEAD INTO THE LATTER HALF OF FEBRUARY. PWB && .AVIATION... 12Z TAF SET VFR CONDITIONS ARE OCCURRING ACROSS ALL FOUR TAF SITES AT THE PRESENT MOMENT BUT CONDITIONS ARE GOING TO QUICKLY DETERIORATE OVER THE NEXT ONE TO FOUR HOURS AS MVFR AND EVENTUALLY IFR CIGS SPREAD ACROSS THE CWA. IN ADDITION...A LINE OF SHRAS/TSRAS WILL PUSH INTO THE TAF SITES BETWEEN 14-18Z REDUCING VSBYS AND WILL LINGER INTO THE AFTERNOON HOURS. LIGHT SHRAS MAY LINGER BEHIND THE LINE FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. IFR CIGS SHOULD CLEAR WEST TO EAST DURING EVENING HOURS. STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS OF 12-15 KTS WITH HIGHER GUSTS EXPECTED AHEAD OF LINE. WINDS WILL TURN AROUND TO THE WSW BY THIS EVENING AS SPEEDS DECREASE TO AROUND 8-10 KTS. KRM && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... MEM 63 43 58 39 / 100 10 0 10 MKL 59 43 57 32 / 100 10 0 10 JBR 62 39 55 34 / 100 10 0 10 TUP 62 45 60 39 / 100 40 10 20 && .MEG WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...NONE. MO...NONE. MS...NONE. TN...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 844 AM CST SUN FEB 10 2013 ARZ008-009-017-018-026>028-035-036-048-049-058-MOZ113-115- MSZ001>017-020>024-TNZ001>004-019>021-048>055-088>092-111645- 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- 844 AM CST SUN FEB 10 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST ARKANSAS... THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL...NORTH MISSISSIPPI...AND WEST TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL TRACK ACROSS THE MIDSOUTH TODAY. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS...AND SMALL HAIL MAY OCCUR WITH THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY LIGHT SNOW WILL BE POSSIBLE TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY MORNING... WITH ONE INCH ACCUMULATIONS POSSIBLE NORTH OF A JONESBORO ARKANSAS TO HUNTINGDON TENNESSEE LINE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. JAB
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
A woman was struck by lightning while lifting the garage door of a storage unit and suffered a minor injury to her right arm.
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