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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Memphis, TN

June 10, 1992Crittenden County, Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 1992, 12:29 PM CDT for Crittenden County, Arkansas. It was in force for 31 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 10, 1992, 12:29 PM CDT (17:29 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 1992, 1:00 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Crittenden County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 252 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: 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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMEM 101732
TORMEM
ARC035-101800-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
1229 PM CDT WED JUN 10 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  100 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN EAST ARKANSAS
 
   ...CRITTENDEN COUNTY
 
AT 1220 THIS AFTERNOON RADAR SHOWED A POSSIBLE TORNADO ON THE GROUND
IN CRITTENDEN COUNTY ARKANSAS NEAR MARION AND WEST MEMPHIS MOVING TO
THE NORTHEAST. PERSONS NEAR MARION...WEST MEMPHIS AND JAMES MILL
ARKANSAS SHOULD SEEK SHELTER AS STORMS APPROACH.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

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, Jun 10, 9:40 AM CDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before

TNZ010-011-012-013-014-015-ARZ012-013-101530-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
930 AM CDT WED JUN 10 1992

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH NORTHEAST ARKANSAS...

AT 925 AM RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IN EXTREME
NORTHEAST ARKANSAS FROM HARRISBURG NORTH TO THE MISSOURI STATE LINE NEAR
MCDOUGAL ARKANSAS. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS WITH STORMS BETWEEN NETTLETON
AND MARMADUKE.

AS THESE STORMS MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR..PERSONS IN CLAY
..GREENE..CRAIGHEAD..MISSISSIPPI..AND POINSETT COUNTIES SHOULD EXPECT
PERIODS OF BRIEF BUT HEAVY RAINFALL ALONG WITH SOME STRONG GUSTY WINDS
WITH STORM PASSAGE.

THIS WEATHER SYSTEM WILL PASS THROUGH THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL SHORTLY AND
WILL BE CROSSING THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND ENTERING NORTHWEST WEST TENNESSEE
BY 1100 AM.

Special weather statement, Jun 10, 10:39 AM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before

TNZ010-011-012-013-014-015-ARZ012-013-101530-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
1030 AM CDT WED JUN 10 1992

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING WEST TENNESSEE...

AT 1025 AM RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IN NORTHEAST
ARKANSAS AND THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.
RAINFALL WAS HEAVIEST WITH THUNDERSTORMS IN A 5 MILE WIDE BAND FROM TERRELL
ARKANSAS TO PORTAGEVILLE MISSOURI.

THESE STORMS ARE APPRAOCHING THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND WILL BEGIN TO CROSS
INTO THE WEST TENNESSEE COUNTIES OF LAKE..DYER..LAUDERDALE..AND TIPTON
BY 1100 AM.

PERSONS IN THOSE COUNTIES..AS WELL AS MISSISSIPPI AND CRITTENDEN COUNTIES
OF EAST ARKANSAS..SHOULD EXPECT PERIODS OF BRIEF BUT VERY HEAVY RAINFALL
ALONG WITH SOME STRONG GUSTY WINDS WITH THE PASSAGE OF THESE STORMS.

Special weather statement, Jun 10, 11:56 AM CDT, 33 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

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead, Poinsett	61 min
Jun 10, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Greene	55 min
Jun 10, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crittenden	42 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.