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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Memphis, TN

June 5, 1994Mississippi County, Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1994, 4:44 PM CDT for Mississippi County, Arkansas. It was in force for 31 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 5, 1994, 4:44 PM CDT (21:44 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 1994, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Mississippi County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 104 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: 1054 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 920 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 30 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.

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 5, 1:26 PM CDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 5, 3:19 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 5, 3:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 5, 3:46 PM CDT, 58 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 5, 4:16 PM CDT, 28 minutes before

ARZ009-018-026-052215-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
416 PM CDT SUN JUN 5 1994

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING NORTHEAST ARKANSAS...

AN AREA OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS THAT WAS OVER EXTREME SOUTH MISSOURI AT
310 PM WAS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF ARKANSAS AND WILL MOVE
INTO THAT AREA LATER THIS AFTERNOON.

THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BOTH DESTRUCTIVE WIND GUSTS
AND LARGE HAIL.  THE STORMS WERE FORMING ALONG A WIND SHIFT LINE THAT
DEVELOPED FROM INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS FARTHER NORTH IN MISSOURI.  THE
WIND SHIFT LINE WILL PUSH SOUTHEAST INTO GREENE AND CLAY COUNTIES OF
NORTHEAST ARKANSAS AND INTO THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL BEFORE 500 PM THIS
EVENING.

RESIDENTS OF NORTHEAST ARKANSAS SHOULD KEEP POSTED ON LOCAL WEATHER
DEVELOPMENTS AND STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR UPDATES ON THE
THREATENING WEATHER.

Special weather statement, Jun 5, 4:16 PM CDT, 28 minutes before

ARZ009-018-026-052215-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
416 PM CDT SUN JUN 5 1994

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING NORTHEAST ARKANSAS...

AN AREA OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS THAT WAS OVER EXTREME SOUTH MISSOURI AT
310 PM WAS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF ARKANSAS AND WILL MOVE
INTO THAT AREA LATER THIS AFTERNOON.

THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BOTH DESTRUCTIVE WIND GUSTS
AND LARGE HAIL.  THE STORMS WERE FORMING ALONG A WIND SHIFT LINE THAT
DEVELOPED FROM INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS FARTHER NORTH IN MISSOURI.  THE
WIND SHIFT LINE WILL PUSH SOUTHEAST INTO GREENE AND CLAY COUNTIES OF
NORTHEAST ARKANSAS AND INTO THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL BEFORE 500 PM THIS
EVENING.

RESIDENTS OF NORTHEAST ARKANSAS SHOULD KEEP POSTED ON LOCAL WEATHER
DEVELOPMENTS AND STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR UPDATES ON THE
THREATENING WEATHER.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 3:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Panola	35 min
Jun 5, 4:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lafayette	34 min
Jun 5, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Clay, Greene	41 min
Jun 5, 6:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Greene	39 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.