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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 168, NWS Memphis, TN

May 27, 1997Craighead County, Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1997, 1:12 AM CDT for Craighead County, Arkansas. It was in force for 48 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
May 27, 1997, 1:12 AM CDT (06:12 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 1997, 2:00 AM CDT
In force
48 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 06:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 27, 1:20 AM CDTHail 2.75Bono, ARHail ranging in size from quarters to baseballs fell in Bono.
May 27, 1:55 AM CDTTornado F0Jonesboro, ARA tornado touched down just north of Jonesboro causing minimal damage.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 26, 9:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

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
May 27, 4:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGBenton46 min
May 27, 5:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGTallahatchie49 min
May 27, 6:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGChickasaw46 min
May 26, 7:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLauderdale46 min
May 26, 7:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGHaywood48 min
May 26, 7:58 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGHaywood32 min
May 26, 8:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMadison46 min
May 26, 8:30 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGMadison35 min
May 26, 9:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGChester33 min
May 26, 9:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGHardeman51 min
May 26, 9:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMcNairy48 min
May 26, 9:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGHardin46 min
May 27, 3:24 AM CDTTornado WarningMEGTipton31 min
May 27, 3:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGShelby48 min
May 27, 4:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGFayette33 min
May 26, 8:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGRandolph45 min
May 26, 10:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGRandolph50 min
May 26, 10:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLawrence49 min
May 26, 11:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGRandolph34 min
May 26, 11:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLawrence49 min
May 26, 11:21 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGLawrence34 min
May 26, 11:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGGreene47 min
May 26, 11:57 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGCraighead48 min
May 27, 1:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLawrence34 min
May 27, 1:40 AM CDTTornado WarningMEGCraighead30 min
May 27, 2:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGPoinsett49 min
May 27, 2:39 AM CDTTornado WarningMEGCross, Poinsett31 min
May 27, 3:06 AM CDTTornado WarningMEGCrittenden49 min
May 27, 3:12 AM CDTTornado WarningMEGMississippi, Poinsett48 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.