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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Memphis, TN

August 5, 1993Crittenden County, Cross County, Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 1993, 5:47 PM CDT for Crittenden County, Cross County, Arkansas. It was in force for 28 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 5, 1993, 5:47 PM CDT (22:47 UTC)
Expired
Aug 5, 1993, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 1993-08-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 44 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, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 1993-08-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 69 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
44 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-158 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
918 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
133 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 5, 5:02 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGDeSoto43 min
Aug 5, 6:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGFayette, Shelby41 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.