Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 1989, 5:48 PM CST for St. Francis County, Arkansas. It was in force for 27 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 1989, 5:48 PM CST (23:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 1989, 6:15 PM CST
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County St. Francis County, AR
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 5:55 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | St. Francis, AR | |
| Mar 30, 6:10 PM CST | Hail 0.88 | St. Francis, AR |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 76 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3583 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 30, 5:32 PM CST, 16 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 530 PM CST THU MAR 30 1989 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 70 CONTINUES IN EFFECT ACROSS MUCH OF ARKANSAS ALONG WITH EXTREME WEST TENNESSEE AND EXTREME NORTH WEST MISSISSSIPPI... AT 525 PM WEATHER RADAR CONTINUED TO DETECT VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST ARKANSAS...ROUGHLY BETWEEN LONOKE AND CORNING. THE STRONGEST WERE INDICATED TO BE NEAR DES ARC...ANOTHER JUST NORTH OF CORNING...AND SOUTHWEST OF DELAPLANE. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE EAST-NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. LARGE HAIL WAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THE MORE INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY TRACKED OVER CENTRAL AND NORTH ARKANSAS EARLIER THIS EVENING. WEATHER CONDITIONS APPEAR TO FAVOR FURTHER INTENSIFICATION DURING THE NEXT HOUR OR SO. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR LATER UPDATES ON THIS POTENTIALLY DESTRUCTIVE WEATHER SITUATION.
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.