Great Smoky National Park, Tennessee

Regional Weather Alerts


Alert: Air Quality Alert
Area(s): Crittenden; DeSoto; Shelby
Effective: 11apeor16ap
Onset: 11apeor16ap -> 12apeor30ap
Severity: Unknown
Certainty: Unknown
Urgency: Unknown
Issued By: NWS Memphis TN on 11apeor16ap
Headline: Air Quality Alert issued September 11 at 3:16PM CDT by NWS Memphis TN
Description: AQAMEG

The Shelby County Health Department has issued a Code Orange Ozone
Forecast effective for Shelby County Tennessee, Crittenden County
Arkansas, and DeSoto County Mississippi, including the city of
Memphis for Friday. This ozone forecast is due to forecasted ozone
values that will be unhealthy for sensitive groups. These values will
exceed the Environmental Protection Agency's federal safe health
standard. The Shelby County Health Department recommends that
sensitive groups which include active children and adults, and
people with respiratory disease, such as asthma, limit prolonged
outdoor exertion. Please continue to check the latest air quality
forecasts and updates until monitored values return to safe levels.
For more information go to www.airnow.gov.