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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 157, NWS Memphis, TN

May 26, 1997Randolph County, Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1997, 8:15 PM CDT for Randolph 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: May 26, 1997, 8:15 PM CDT (01:15 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 1997, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Randolph County, AR

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 26, 3:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 194 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: 4008 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 884 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 121 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 4.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMEM 270116
SVRMEM
ARC121-270200-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
815 PM CDT MON MAY 26 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHEASTERN ARKANSAS

   ...RANDOLPH COUNTY
 
AT 812 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH
LARGE HAIL ALONG THE STATE LINE NEAR ELM STORE AND HIGHWAY 93. THIS
STORM IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH AND WILL PASS THROUGH MAINLY
RURAL AREAS OF NORTHERN RANDOLPH COUNTY.

.A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.
REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE
TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE
ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 7:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Mississippi	46 min
May 26, 10:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Randolph	50 min
May 26, 10:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lawrence	49 min
May 26, 11:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Randolph	34 min
May 26, 11:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lawrence	49 min
May 26, 11:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lawrence	34 min
May 26, 11:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Greene	47 min
May 26, 11:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Craighead	48 min
May 27, 1:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lawrence	34 min
May 27, 1:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead	48 min
May 27, 1:40 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Craighead	30 min
May 27, 2:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Poinsett	49 min
May 27, 2:39 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Cross, Poinsett	31 min
May 27, 3:06 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Crittenden	49 min
May 27, 3:12 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Mississippi, Poinsett	48 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.