Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1992, 4:44 PM CDT for Craighead County, Poinsett County, Arkansas. It was in force for 61 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 10, 1992, 4:44 PM CDT (21:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1992, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Craighead County, AR, Poinsett County, AR
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 5:15 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Craighead, AR | |
| Jun 10, 5:30 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Craighead, 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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 231 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
- 15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -140 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 976 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 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 10, 11:56 AM CDT, 4 hours 48 minutes before
TNZ012-013-014-015-MSZ001-004-ARZ012-013-014-101900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1155 AM CDT WED JUN 10 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS RUMBLING INTO WEST TENNESSEE... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING THROUGH WEST TENNESSEE EARLY THIS AFTERNOON AS WARM HUMID UNSTABLE AIR CONTINUES COVERING THE REGION. THE STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER AND AROUND THE CITIES OF MEMPHIS...COVINGTON AND DYERSBURG TENN
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 1:46 PM CDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before
MSZ004-005-007-101945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS 146 PM CDT WED JUN 10 1992 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HEADING INTO NORTHCENTRAL MISSISSIPPI... AT 1230 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN TUPELO INDICATE AN AREA OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR HOLLY SPRINGS IN EXTREME NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI TO NEAR HUNTINGDON IN NORTHWEST TENNESSEE. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAIN...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS IN EXCESS OF 50 MILES AN HOUR...AND POSSIBLY LARGE HAIL. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING SLOWLY TO THE EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS...ESPECIALLY MARSHAL...BENTON...AND TIPPAH COUNTIES...SHOULD KEEP A CLOSE WATCH FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. ELSEWHERE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ARE MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. NNNN
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 3:02 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
TNZ012-013-014-015-MSZ001-004-ARZ012-013-014-102100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 302 PM CDT WED JUN 10 1992 THUNDERSTORMS WERE STILL ACTIVE AND STRONG AT 300 PM ... AND WERE ALONG A LINE THAT STRETCHED FROM BETWEEN HUNTINGDON AND PARSONS TOWARD THE SOUTH AND WEST TO THE SELMER AREA OF WEST TENNESSEE ... AND ACROSS NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI ... FROM NEAR WALNUT TO JUST SOUTH OF HOLLY SPRINGS. THE THUNDERSTORMS OVER WEST TENNESSEE WERE MOVNG TOWARD THE EAST AT 20 MPH ... THOSE OVER MISSISSIPPI WERE MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOVED OUT OF MOST OF WEST TENNESSEE BY 300 PM... AND THE RAIN HAD ENDED OVER NEARLY ALL OF FAYETTE COUNTY TENNESSEE. BUT A FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL CONTINUE FOR FAYETTE COUNTY UNTIL 345 PM AS WATER CONTINUES TO DRAIN FROM THE TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS THAT OCCURRED EARLIER. MORE THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER NORTHERN ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE WORKING THEIR WAY EAST THIS EVENING AND WILL POSE A THREAT OF RENEWED THUNDERSTORMS FOR EAST ARKANSAS ... WEST TENNESSEE ... AND NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI LATER TONIGHT. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR LATER BULLETINS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 2:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Alcorn, Tippah | 63 min |
| Jun 10, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Union | 44 min |
| Jun 10, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tishomingo | 44 min |
| Jun 10, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Monroe | 99 min |
| Jun 10, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Coahoma | 69 min |
| Jun 10, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | DeSoto, Tate | 42 min |
| Jun 10, 1:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette | 30 min |
| Jun 10, 1:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Fayette | 117 min |
| Jun 10, 2:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Carroll | 29 min |
| Jun 10, 12:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Crittenden | 31 min |
| Jun 10, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Greene | 55 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.