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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Memphis, TN

March 24, 1996Crittenden County, Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 24, 1996, 9:14 PM CST for Crittenden County, Arkansas. It was in force for 46 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
Mar 24, 1996, 9:14 PM CST (03:14 UTC)
Expired
Mar 24, 1996, 10:00 PM CST
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Crittenden County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 53 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 00:00Z on 1996-03-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 149 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 00:00Z on 1996-03-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 394 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
149 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-103 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
559 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
394 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
466 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.4

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 24, 8:02 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLawrence43 min
Mar 24, 8:22 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCraighead, Poinsett53 min
Mar 24, 8:32 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCross43 min
Mar 24, 8:36 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGGreene54 min
Mar 24, 8:49 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGClay41 min
Mar 24, 9:03 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMississippi42 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.