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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 211, NWS Memphis, TN

July 2, 1994Craighead County, Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1994, 4:21 PM CDT for Craighead County, Arkansas. It was in force for 69 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jul 2, 1994, 4:21 PM CDT (21:21 UTC)
Expired
Jul 2, 1994, 5:30 PM CDT
In force
69 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Craighead County, AR

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 2, 5:27 PM CDTTornado F0Cash, ARA small tornado briefly touched down. A car was tossed off the road. A mobile home was damaged and several large trees were knocked down.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 127 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 1994-07-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 999 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 1994-07-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -3 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
999 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
775 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
1 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 1, 7:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGChickasaw38 min
Jul 2, 4:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGGreene60 min
Jul 2, 5:30 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGCraighead30 min
Jul 2, 5:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGPoinsett54 min
Jul 2, 6:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCross47 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.