Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1989, 5:57 PM CDT for Crittenden County, Cross County, Arkansas. It was in force for 63 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
- Jun 4, 1989, 5:57 PM CDT (22:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1989, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Crittenden County, AR, Cross 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 6:28 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Cross, AR | |
| Jun 4, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Crittenden, 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 3611 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 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, Jun 4, 12:27 PM CDT, 5 hours 30 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Jun 4, 5:09 PM CDT, 48 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
500 PM CDT SUN JUN 4 1989
...THUNDERSTORMS PUSHING INTO NORTHEASTERN ARKANSAS...
THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLE
SMALL HAIL ARE MOVING INTO NORTHEAST ARKANSAS. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING
CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS.
CONDITIONS FAVOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS AND
PEOPLE SHOULD BE ALERT FOR CHANGING WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK
SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES OR A WARNING IS ISSUED.
THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS ARE JUST NORTH OF COTTON PLANT ARKANSAS
AND ARE MOVING NORTHEASTWARD AT 45 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE
INTO CROSS AND POINSETT COUNTIES IN THE NEXT HOUR.
STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR FURTHER WEATHER UPDATES.The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | DeSoto, Marshall, Tate | 32 min |
| Jun 3, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | DeSoto, Tate | 42 min |
| Jun 4, 6:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Shelby | 48 min |
| Jun 4, 6:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Crittenden | 28 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 1989Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1989
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.