Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 24, 1994, 5:32 AM CST for Cross County, Arkansas. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 24, 1994, 5:32 AM CST (11:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 24, 1994, 6:15 AM CST
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cross County, AR
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 1125 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 824 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMEM 241130 SVRMEM ARC037-241215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 532 AM CST THU MAR 24 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 AM CST FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN EAST ARKANSAS ...WESTERN CROSS COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST INTO WESTERN CROSS COUNTY AT 528 AM THIS MORNING. THE STORM WILL TRACK ACROSS THE FAIROAKS - HICKORY RIDGE AREA BETWEEN 530 AM AND 550 AM AND WILL BE MOVING TOWARD THE WYNNE .. VANNDALE .. CHERRY VALLEY AREAS BY ABOUT 600 AM. DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATES LARGE HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WILL ACCOMPANY THIS STORM AS IT PASSES THROUGH. VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL ALSO COME WITH THIS STORM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
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, Mar 24, 2:35 AM CST, 2 hours 57 minutes before
ARC035-107-123-MSC033-093-TNC047-069-071-109-157-240945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 236 AM CST THU MAR 24 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM HEADED FOR SELMER AREA OF SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE... DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR DETECTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER EXTREME SOUTHEAST HARDEMAN COUNTY TENNESSEE AT 225 AM. HEADED EAST AT 25 MPH THIS STORM WILL TRACK OVER WESTERN MCNAIRY COUNTY AND ACROSS THE CITY OF SELMER BETWEEN 230 AM AND 315 AM THIS MORNING. ALONG WITH A BRIEF PERIOD OF HEAVY RAIN THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF BRINGING A STRONG WIND GUST AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL AS IT MOVES THROUGH. THE STRONG STORM WAS PART OF AN AREA OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT WAS DEVELOPING ACROSS EAST ARKANSAS AND SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE. WHILE THE HARDEMAN/MCNAIRY STORM WAS THE STRONGEST DETECTED AT 225 AM ... OTHER STORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL FOR FAIRLY RAPID GROWTH DURING THE PRE-DAWN HOURS. STAY TUNED TVO THIS STATION FOR LATER UPDATES ON THE MORNING THUNDERSTORMS.
Special weather statement, Mar 24, 3:12 AM CST, 2 hours 20 minutes before
ARC021-031-035-055-093-111-241015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 313 AM CST THU MAR 24 1994 ...LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO NORTHEAST ARKANSAS... DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR DETECTED A NARROW LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS ADVANCING SOUTH INTO NORTHEAST ARKANSAS AT 305 AM. THE THUNDERSTORM LINE AT THAT TIME STRETCHED FROM NEAR CAIRO ILLINOIS WEST-SOUTHWEST ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSOURI TO NEAR MELBOURNE IN IZARD COUNTY ARKANSAS. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS PRESSING TOWARD THE SOUTH AT 25 MPH AND WILL BRING HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WIND TO THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF ARKANSAS BY 430 THIS MORNING. FIRST AFFECTED WILL BE THE CORNING/DELAPLAIN AREAS IN CLAY AND GREENE COUNTIES. THE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO THE JONESBORO PARAGOULD AREAS BY ABOPUT 500 AM. ALONG WITH THE BRIEF DOWNPOUR AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ... THESE STORMS MAY BRING SOME HAIL. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR UPDATES ON THE MORNING THUNDERSTORMS.
Special weather statement, Mar 24, 5:05 AM CST, 27 minutes before
ARC021-031-035-037-055-093-123-TNC047-069-113-109-157-241215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 507 AM CST THU MAR 24 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS BRING A VARIETY OF WEATHER TO EAST ARKANSAS... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAKING TWO AREAS OF NORTHEAST ARKANSAS EARLY THIS MORNING. A VERY SLOW MOVING LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM NEAR MAMOUTH SPRINGS EASTWARD ALONG THE ARKANSAS - MISSOURI STATE BORDER AREA. AND A CLUSTER OF INTENSE STORMS WAS MOVING OUT OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS TOWARD THE WYNNE - JONESBORO AREA. ALL OF THESE STORMS WILL BRING DEADLY LIGHTNING ... A PERIOD OF HEAVY RAIN ... AND THE POTENTIAL FOR STRONG WIND GUSTS AND HAIL. STRONG GUSTS OF WIND AND SMALL HAIL HAVE ACCOMPANIED SOME OF THE STORMS MOVING OUT OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS. ADDITIONALLY .. MORE THAN AN INCH OF RAIN HAD FALLEN ON PARTS OF EXTREME NORTHEAST ARKANSAS BY 500 AM. DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR LOCATED A SWATH OF HEAVIER RAIN NEAR THE MISSOURI - ARKANSAS BORDER - JUST NORTH OF MCDOUGAL AND CORNING IN CLAY COUNTY ARKANSAS. OTHER AREAS WITH NOTABLE RAINFALL INCLUDED THE AREA BETWEEN MARMADUKE AND PIGGOTT - IN GREENE AND CLAY COUNTIES ... AND ACROSS CENTRAL PARTS OF ST FRANCIS .. CROSS .. AND CRITTENDEN COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST ARKANSAS. IN WEST TENNESSEE... THE HEAVIER RAINS DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THE HEAVIER RAINS HAVE FALLEN ACROSS THE MOSCOW - LAGRANGE - SELMER AREAS OF FAYETTE .. HARDEMAN .. MCNAIRY COUNTIES OF SOUHWEST TENNESSEE. THE NUMBER OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST TO CONTINUE INCREASING ACROSS EAST ARKANSAS AND WEST TENNESSEE THIS MORNING AS A COLD FRONT NEARS THE AREA. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR UPDATES ON THE MORNING THUNDERSTORMS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 6:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Cross | 27 min |
| Mar 24, 7:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crittenden | 43 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.