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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 303, NWS Memphis, TN

June 14, 1998Phillips County, Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1998, 7:06 PM CDT for Phillips County, Arkansas. It was in force for 34 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 14, 1998, 7:06 PM CDT (00:06 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 1998, 7:40 PM CDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Phillips County, AR

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:09 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, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 94 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 1998-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1998-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 32 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2950 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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, 7:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGHenry49 min
Jun 14, 7:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGWeakley48 min
Jun 14, 8:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGHenry48 min
Jun 14, 8:36 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGHenry34 min
Jun 14, 9:28 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMEGHenry, Weakley2 hr
Jun 14, 9:28 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMEGObion2 hr
Jun 14, 10:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMonroe35 min
Jun 15, 6:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCalhoun45 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.