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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 241, NWS Memphis, TN

July 24, 1996Greene County, Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 1996, 3:46 PM CDT for Greene County, Arkansas. It was in force for 49 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
Jul 24, 1996, 3:46 PM CDT (20:46 UTC)
Expired
Jul 24, 1996, 4:35 PM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Greene County, AR

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:49 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 153 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 1996-07-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1716 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 1996-07-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -6 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
1716 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
704 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-32 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 24, 1:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLee, Pontotoc50 min
Jul 24, 6:08 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMEGShelby62 min
Jul 24, 3:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGClay34 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.