Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 28, 1997, 5:06 PM CST for Crittenden County, St. Francis County, Arkansas. It was in force for 49 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
- Feb 28, 1997, 5:06 PM CST (23:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 28, 1997, 5:55 PM CST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Crittenden County, AR, St. Francis County, AR
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:08 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 nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 62 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 282306 RRA SVRMEM ARC035-123-282355- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 506 PM CST FRI FEB 28 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 555 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEASTERN ARKANSAS ...CRITTENDEN COUNTY ...EASTERN ST. FRANCIS COUNTY AT 505 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR HUGHES. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH AND WILL AFFECT CHATFIELD...EDMONDSON AND WEST MEMPHIS. LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. .SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGPHTNING...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.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Feb 28, 3:29 PM CST, 1 hour 37 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TENNESSEE
329 PM CST FRI FEB 28 1997
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0150 PM OTWELL AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
02/28/97 CRAIGHEAD GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL WAS
REPORTED ALONG THE COUNTY
LINE.
0203 PM HERGETT AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
02/28/97 CRAIGHEAD SPOTTERS REPORTED GOLFBALL
SIZE HAIL.
0200 PM TRUMANN AR .75 INCH HAIL
02/28/97 POINSETT DIME SIZE HAIL COVERED
HIGHWAY 163 ALONG THE
COUNTY LINE.
0200 PM HARRISBURG AR .75 INCH HAIL
02/28/97 POINSETT DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY
SHERIFFS OFFICE.
0214 PM CARDWELL MO 1.75 INCH HAIL
02/28/97 DUNKLIN POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED
GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL.
0231 PM KENNETT MO 1.25 INCH HAIL
02/28/97 DUNKLIN POLICE REPORTED HAIL JUST
SOUTH OF KENNETT.
0250 PM WARDELL MO 1.75 INCH HAIL
02/28/97 PEMISCOT GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL COVERED
THE GROUND. REPORT FROM
SHERIFFS OFFICE.
0152 PM BAY AR 2 INCH HAIL
02/28/97 CRAIGHEAD SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED
2.OO INCH HAIL.
0301 PM BIGGERS AR .75 INCH HAIL
02/28/97 RANDOLPH SPOTTERS REPORTED DIME
SIZE HAIL.
RDSLocal storm report, Feb 28, 3:30 PM CST, 1 hour 36 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TENNESSEE
329 PM CST FRI FEB 28 1997
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0150 PM OTWELL AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
02/28/97 CRAIGHEAD GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL WAS
REPORTED ALONG THE COUNTY
LINE.
0203 PM HERGETT AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
02/28/97 CRAIGHEAD SPOTTERS REPORTED GOLFBALL
SIZE HAIL.
0200 PM TRUMANN AR .75 INCH HAIL
02/28/97 POINSETT DIME SIZE HAIL COVERED
HIGHWAY 163 ALONG THE
COUNTY LINE.
0200 PM HARRISBURG AR .75 INCH HAIL
02/28/97 POINSETT DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY
SHERIFFS OFFICE.
0214 PM CARDWELL MO 1.75 INCH HAIL
02/28/97 DUNKLIN POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED
GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL.
0231 PM KENNETT MO 1.25 INCH HAIL
02/28/97 DUNKLIN POLICE REPORTED HAIL JUST
SOUTH OF KENNETT.
0250 PM WARDELL MO 1.75 INCH HAIL
02/28/97 PEMISCOT GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL COVERED
THE GROUND. REPORT FROM
SHERIFFS OFFICE.
0152 PM BAY AR 2 INCH HAIL
02/28/97 CRAIGHEAD SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED
2.OO INCH HAIL.
0301 PM BIGGERS AR .75 INCH HAIL
02/28/97 RANDOLPH < SPOTTERS REPORTED DIME
SIZE HAIL.
RDSThe 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, 1:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Craighead | 46 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 |
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.