Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 28, 1997, 1:39 PM CST for Craighead County, Arkansas. It was in force for 46 min. 3 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
- Feb 28, 1997, 1:39 PM CST (19:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 28, 1997, 2:25 PM CST
- In force
- 46 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 19:42 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 1:50 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Otwell, AR | |
| Feb 28, 1:52 PM CST | Hail 2 | Bay, AR | |
| Feb 28, 2:03 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Hergett, AR |
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 nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1491 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 284 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMEM 281939 RRA SVRMEM ARC031-282025- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 139 PM CST FRI FEB 28 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 225 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEASTERN ARKANSAS ...CRAIGHEAD COUNTY AT 138 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LIKELY PRODUCING LARGE HAIL ABOUT 5 MILES NORTH-NORTHEAST OF HARRISBURG. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HAIL LARGER THAN QUARTERS. THE STORM WILL MOVE JUST EAST OF JONESBORO BY 215 PM. .SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 1:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Poinsett | 47 min |
| Feb 28, 2:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Greene | 49 min |
| Feb 28, 2:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Clay, Randolph | 32 min |
| Feb 28, 5:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crittenden, St. Francis | 49 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.