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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Memphis, TN

March 22, 1991Craighead County, Greene County, Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Mar 22, 1991, 8:30 AM CST for Craighead County, Greene County, Arkansas. It was in force for 30 min. 1 report 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 22, 1991, 8:30 AM CST (14:30 UTC)
Expired: Mar 22, 1991, 9:00 AM CST
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Craighead County, AR, Greene County, AR

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 22, 8:35 AM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Greene, 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

Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 12:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 209 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2208 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 80 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 233 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 279 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 tornado 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 22, 2:42 AM CST, 5 hours 48 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 22, 2:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Coahoma	51 min
Mar 22, 2:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	DeSoto, Tate	51 min
Mar 22, 2:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tunica	42 min
Mar 22, 4:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tippah	47 min
Mar 22, 4:47 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lafayette	28 min
Mar 22, 4:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, Marshall	39 min
Mar 22, 5:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lafayette, Tippah, Union	47 min
Mar 22, 5:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Alcorn	47 min
Mar 22, 4:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Carroll, Gibson, Weakley	27 min
Mar 22, 4:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chester, Henderson, Madison	34 min
Mar 22, 4:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Hardeman, McNairy	26 min
Mar 22, 5:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Decatur, Hardin, McNairy	28 min
Mar 22, 5:17 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Hardin	28 min
Mar 22, 5:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Hardin, McNairy	27 min
Mar 22, 7:38 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead, Greene	67 min

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.