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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS Memphis, TN

June 26, 1994Phillips County, Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1994, 7:45 AM CDT for Phillips County, Arkansas. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 26, 1994, 7:45 AM CDT (12:45 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 1994, 8:30 AM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Phillips County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 94 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: 1525 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -276 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1275 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 338 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 492 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.5

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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, Jun 26, 4:53 AM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 26, 5:45 AM CDT, 2 hours before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 26, 7:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tipton	51 min
Jun 26, 8:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Fayette, Shelby	44 min
Jun 26, 9:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Fayette	42 min
Jun 26, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Obion, Weakley	50 min
Jun 26, 3:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Weakley	25 min
Jun 26, 3:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Obion	35 min
Jun 26, 4:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Gibson	27 min
Jun 26, 4:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Gibson, Obion	32 min
Jun 26, 4:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Gibson	35 min
Jun 26, 5:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Gibson	66 min
Jun 26, 5:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lauderdale	38 min
Jun 26, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Carroll	44 min
Jun 26, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Haywood	52 min
Jun 26, 6:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Haywood, Tipton	28 min
Jun 26, 6:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Haywood	32 min
Jun 26, 6:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chester, Madison	41 min
Jun 26, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Henderson	50 min
Jun 26, 6:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Fayette, Hardeman	68 min
Jun 26, 4:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Greene	44 min
Jun 26, 4:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead	40 min
Jun 26, 5:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Poinsett	66 min
Jun 26, 5:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead	31 min
Jun 26, 6:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Cross	52 min
Jun 26, 6:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	St. Francis	46 min
Jun 26, 7:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Mississippi	49 min
Jun 26, 7:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lee	53 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 1994 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994

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.