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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
1255 PM CST SUN NOV 3 2013

...OCTOBER 2013 MONTHLY CLIMATE SUMMARY...

OCTOBER IS THE FIRST FULL MONTH OF FALL...AND IT DEFINITELY FELT LIKE FALL 
THIS PAST MONTH...WITH AVERAGE TEMPERATURES AROUND THE MID-SOUTH
REMAINING NEAR NORMAL. MEMPHIS WAS THE WARMEST SITE AROUND THE
REGION WITH AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 64.6 DEGREES...WHICH WAS 0.5
DEGREES ABOVE THE NORMAL AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR OCTOBER...WHICH
IS 64.1 DEGREES. MEMPHIS IS STILL SLIGHTLY COOLER THAN NORMAL FOR
THE YEAR...AT 65.4 DEGREES FOR THE CURRENT AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR
2013...WHICH IS 0.5 DEGREES COOLER THAN THE NORMAL AVERAGE OF 65.9
DEGREES. TUPELO WAS THE SECOND WARMEST SITE AROUND THE REGION IN
OCTOBER...BUT HAD THE GREATEST DEVIATION FROM NORMAL. THE AVERAGE
TEMPERATURE IN TUPELO THIS PAST MONTH WAS 64.2 DEGREES...1.2
DEGREES WARMER THAN THE NORMAL AVERAGE OF 63.0 DEGREES. FOR THE
YEAR SO FAR TUPELO IS JUST 0.5 DEGREES COOLER THAN NORMAL. ITS
CURRENT AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE YEAR IS 64.7 DEGREES...WHILE
THE NORMAL AVERAGE IS 65.2 DEGREES. JONESBORO HAD AN AVERAGE
TEMPERATURE THIS MONTH OF 61.6 DEGREES...0.4 DEGREES WARMER THAN
THE NORMAL AVERAGE OF 61.2 DEGREES. CURRENTLY FOR 2013...JONESBORO
IS 0.2 DEGREES ABOVE THE NORMAL AVERAGE OF 63.0 DEGREES AT 63.2
DEGREES. FINALLY...JACKSONS AVERAGE TEMPERATURE DURING THE MONTH
OF OCTOBER 2013 WAS 60.8 DEGREES...WHICH WAS ONLY 0.3 DEGREES
ABOVE THE NORMAL AVERAGE OF 60.5 DEGREES. SO FAR THIS
YEAR...JACKSON HAS AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 61.7 DEGREES...0.9
DEGREES BELOW THE NORMAL AVERAGE OF 62.6 DEGREES. 

PRECIPITATION ACROSS THE MID-SOUTH DURING OCTOBER VARIED DEPENDING
ON LOCATION AROUND THE REGION. TWO SITES HAD SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL
PRECIPITATION VALUES FOR THE MONTH...WHILE ONE HAD A SLIGHTLY
BELOW NORMAL TOTAL...AND ONE SITE HAD A TOTAL ALMOST 2 INCHES
BELOW NORMAL. JONESBORO WAS THE WETTEST SITE THIS MONTH WITH 4.86
INCHES OF RAINFALL. THIS ALSO MADE JONESBORO THE SITE WITH THE
GREATEST DEVIATION ABOVE NORMAL...ALBEIT SLIGHTLY...WITH 0.60
INCHES ABOVE THE MONTHLY NORMAL PRECIPITATION TOTAL OF 4.26
INCHES. JONESBORO IS 5.16 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION ABOVE NORMAL FOR
2013 SO FAR. JACKSON WAS THE SECOND WETTEST SITE THIS MONTH WITH
3.79 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION...WHICH WAS ONLY 0.02 INCHES ABOVE
THE NORMAL PRECIPITATION TOTAL OF 3.77 INCHES. CURRENTLY JACKSON
IS 8.68 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION ABOVE NORMAL FOR THE YEAR. MEMPHIS
WAS THE THIRD WETTEST SITE THIS MONTH WITH A PRECIPITATION TOTAL
OF 3.30 INCHES...WHICH WAS ACTUALLY 0.68 INCHES BELOW THE NORMAL
TOTAL OF 3.98 INCHES. HOWEVER...DESPITE THIS SLIGHT BELOW NORMAL
TOTAL...MEMPHIS REMAINS 9.49 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION ABOVE NORMAL
FOR THE YEAR. TUPELO WAS THE DRIEST SITE AROUND THE REGION THIS
MONTH AND ALSO HAD THE GREATEST DEVIATION FROM THE NORMAL
PRECIPITATION TOTAL. TUPELO ONLY RECEIVED 2.18 INCHES OF
RAIN...WHICH IS 1.94 INCHES BELOW THE NORMAL FOR OCTOBER OF 4.12
INCHES. TUPELO IS NOW THE ONLY SITE IN THIS SUMMARY WITH A BELOW
NORMAL PRECIPITATION TOTAL FOR 2013 WITH 1.78 INCHES OF
PRECIPITATION BELOW NORMAL. 

TEMPERATURE DATA:
				 MEMPHIS JACKSON  JONESBORO  TUPELO
AVERAGE TEMPERATURE (MONTH)  :   64.6	  60.8	 61.6	     64.2
NORMAL AVG. TEMP (MONTH)     :   64.1	  60.5	 61.2	     63.0
DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL (MONTH):    0.5	   0.3	  0.4	      1.2
AVERAGE TEMPERATURE (YEAR)   :   65.4	  61.7	 63.2	     64.7
NORMAL AVG. TEMP (YEAR)	     :   65.9	  62.6	 63.0	     65.2
DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL (YEAR) :   -0.5	  -0.9	  0.2	     -0.5
				
PRECIPITATION DATA: 
				 MEMPHIS JACKSON  JONESBORO TUPELO
TOTAL PRECIPITATION (MONTH)  :    3.30	  3.79	 4.86	     2.18
NORMAL PRECIPITATION (MONTH) :    3.98	  3.77	 4.26	     4.12
DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL (MONTH):   -0.68	  0.02	 0.60	    -1.94
TOTAL PRECIPITATION (YEAR)   :   51.94	 51.70	43.59	    42.25
NORMAL PRECIPITATION (YEAR)  :   42.45	 43.02	38.43	    44.03
DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL (YEAR) :    9.49	  8.68	 5.16	    -1.78

SIGNIFICANT WEATHER:
A COLD FRONT ASSOCIATED WITH AN UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM APPROACHED 
THE MID-SOUTH REGION ON HALLOWEEN...THE VERY LAST DAY OF OCTOBER.
WHILE THE ATMOSPHERE WAS TOO STABLE TO ALLOW FOR A WIDESPREAD
SEVERE WEATHER OUTBREAK...A FEW STORMS DID HAVE SEVERE
PARAMETERS...INCLUDING ONE STORM WHICH PRODUCED A TORNADO IN
EASTERN CRAIGHEAD COUNTY...ARKANSAS. THE STORM OCCURRED IN THE
TOWN OF CARAWAY AT APPROXIMATELY 7:40 PM. AT THIS TIME THERE WERE
MANY FAMILIES OUT WITH THEIR CHILDREN PARTICIPATING IN VARIOUS
HALLOWEEN FESTIVITIES. ASTONISHINGLY...THERE WERE NO INJURIES OR
FATALITIES. THE TORNADO WAS RATED AN EF-1 WITH MAXIMUM WIND SPEEDS
REACHING 90 TO 100 MPH. THE TORNADO STRUCK THE BUSINESS DISTRICT
OF CARAWAY...CAUSING SIGNIFICANT STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TO THE ROOFS OF
BUSINESSES...HOMES...AND A CHURCH. THE PATH OF THE TORNADO WAS 0.7
MILES LONG AND...AT ITS MAXIMUM INTENSITY...THE TORNADO WAS ABOUT
300 YARDS WIDE.

CLIMATE OUTLOOK:
FOR THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER...THE CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER IS PREDICTING 
ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES AS WELL AS ABOVE NORMAL PRECIPITATION
AMOUNTS. THE THREE MONTH OUTLOOK...WHICH IS VALID FOR THE MONTHS
OF NOVEMBER...DECEMBER...AND JANUARY...PREDICTS ABOVE NORMAL
TEMPERATURES FOR THE MID-SOUTH REGION WITH AN EQUAL CHANCE OF
ABOVE NORMAL...NORMAL...OR BELOW NORMAL PRECIPITATION AMOUNTS.


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