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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 292, NWS Memphis, TN

June 13, 1998Lawrence County, Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1998, 10:27 PM CDT for Lawrence County, Arkansas. It was in force for 48 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
Jun 13, 1998, 10:27 PM CDT (03:27 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 1998, 11:15 PM CDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Lawrence County, AR

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 171 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 1998-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4433 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 1998-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 28 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
4433 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1215 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
61 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.1
Supercell composite
7.4

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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
Jun 14, 12:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGDyer32 min
Jun 14, 1:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGObion34 min
Jun 14, 1:13 AM CDTTornado WarningMEGDyer32 min
Jun 14, 1:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGGibson45 min
Jun 14, 2:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCarroll42 min
Jun 14, 5:36 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGLake34 min
Jun 14, 6:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGObion48 min
Jun 14, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGWeakley32 min
Jun 14, 6:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGWeakley31 min
Jun 14, 4:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGClay45 min
Jun 14, 6:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLee47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.