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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Memphis, TN

June 11, 1996Lee County, Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1996, 12:05 PM CDT for Lee County, Arkansas. It was in force for 45 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 11, 1996, 12:05 PM CDT (17:05 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 1996, 12:50 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Lee County, AR

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 76 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 1996-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 72 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 1996-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 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
72 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1414 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
77 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
Jun 11, 12:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGItawamba47 min
Jun 11, 12:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGItawamba, Lee45 min
Jun 11, 3:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGTishomingo30 min
Jun 11, 4:38 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMEGTishomingo2 hr
Jun 11, 12:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLee47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.