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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 302, NWS Memphis, TN

December 23, 1996Craighead County, Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 23, 1996, 5:15 PM CST for Craighead County, Arkansas. It was in force for 30 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
Dec 23, 1996, 5:15 PM CST (23:15 UTC)
Expired
Dec 23, 1996, 5:45 PM CST
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Craighead County, AR

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:17 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, 11.3 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 1996-12-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 82 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 1996-12-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 366 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
82 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
596 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
366 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
431 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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
Dec 23, 1:38 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGRandolph17 min
Dec 23, 2:00 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGRandolph50 min
Dec 23, 3:53 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLawrence62 min
Dec 23, 4:43 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGGreene47 min
Dec 23, 5:15 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGPoinsett30 min
Dec 23, 5:32 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCross33 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.