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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Memphis, TN

March 5, 1992Crittenden County, St. Francis County, Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 5, 1992, 8:45 PM CST for Crittenden County, St. Francis County, Arkansas. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 5, 1992, 8:45 PM CST (02:45 UTC)
Expired
Mar 5, 1992, 9:30 PM CST
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Crittenden County, AR, St. Francis County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 272 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, Paducah/Barkley, KY at 00:00Z on 1992-03-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 250 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Paducah/Barkley, KY at 00:00Z on 1992-03-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
250 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1510 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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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 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 5, 7:46 PM CST, 59 minutes before
ARZ012-013-014-060245-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
746 PM CST THU MAR 5 1992

...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO NORTHEAST ARKANSAS...

WEATHER RADAR AND SURFACE WEATHER REPORTS INDICATED STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO NORTHEAST ARKANSAS AT 740 PM THIS
EVENING.  WEATHER RADAR ... AT THAT TIME FOUND TWO VERY STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS...ONE APPROACHING WESTERN ST. FRANCIS COUNTY...THE OTHER
APPROACHING WESTERN LEE COUNTY.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE PART OF A LARGE CLUSTER OF INTENSE
THUNDERSTORMS THAT PRODUCED LARGE HAIL OVER MIDDLE PARTS OF ARKANSAS
BETWEEN 600 PM AND 730 PM.

MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH...THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL
SPREAD INTO PHILLIPS...LEE...ST FRANCIS...CROSS.. AND POINSETT
COUNTIES BY 830 PM.  YOU CAN LOOK FOR HEAVY DOWNPOURS...GUSTY
WIND...AND THE POTENTIAL FOR HAIL AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS PASS OVER.

STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR LATER BULLETINS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 5, 8:17 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLee43 min
Mar 5, 9:09 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMississippi, Poinsett51 min
Mar 5, 9:25 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCrittenden50 min
Mar 6, 5:13 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGLee, St. Francis32 min

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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.