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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 137, NWS Memphis, TN

June 16, 1994Crittenden County, Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1994, 6:24 PM CDT for Crittenden County, Arkansas. It was in force for 51 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 16, 1994, 6:24 PM CDT (23:24 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 1994, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
51 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, 11.4 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Paducah/Barkley, KY at 12:00Z on 1994-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1424 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 12:00Z on 1994-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1424 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-73 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1194 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 8:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLowndes59 min
Jun 15, 9:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLowndes65 min
Jun 16, 2:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCarroll47 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.