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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Memphis, TN

April 6, 1986Lake County, Obion County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 6, 1986, 5:04 PM CST for Lake County, Obion County, Tennessee. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 6, 1986, 5:04 PM CST (23:04 UTC)
Expired
Apr 6, 1986, 6:00 PM CST
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Lake County, TN, Obion County, TN

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 178 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 1986-04-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 1986-04-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 95 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3582 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
105 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.