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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 157, NWS Memphis, TN

June 27, 2001St. Francis County, Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2001, 7:45 AM CDT for St. Francis County, Arkansas. It was in force for 30 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: Jun 27, 2001, 7:45 AM CDT (12:45 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2001, 8:15 AM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County St. Francis County, AR

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:49 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, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 71 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1429 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1344 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KMEG 271246
SVRMEM
ARC123-271315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
745 AM CDT WED JUN 27 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ST. FRANCIS COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 815 AM CDT.

* AT 743 AM CDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER
  WIDENER...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

* CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM THROUGH 830 AM CDT INCLUDE...
  NEW HOME...

.THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE
FOR DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING.

.STAY TUNED TO THIS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICEj BROADCAST FOR THE LATEST
UPDATES AND INFORMATION.

LAT...LON 3514 9083 3496 9079 3497 9041 3522 9046

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.

NWS Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 27, 3:02 AM CDT, 4 hours 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 3:02 AM CDT, 4 hours 43 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
302 AM CDT WED JUN 27 2001

UPPER LOW CURRENTLY CENTERED NEAR MO/KY/IL BORDER CONTINUES A SLOW
DRIFT TO THE WEST. SOME CONVECTION FIRED OVERNIGHT RIGHT NEAR CENTER
AND IN SE QUADRANT OVER MS AND AL WHERE MOISTURE IS A BIT DEEPER.
EXPECT A BETTER CHANCE OF SCT AFTERNOON CONVECTION ACROSS THE FA
TODAY WITH -14C 50H TEMPS EXPECTED AND AS UPPER LOW SHIFTS A BIT
FURTHER WWD ALLOWING ERN SEMICIRCLE TO BE LOCATED ACROSS THE AREA.
THIS IS WHERE MOST ACTIVITY HAS OCCURRED PAST SEVERAL DAYS. UPPER
LOW WILL SLOWLY WEAKEN OVER NEXT FEW DAYS AS TEMPS IN THE CORE RISE.
STILL EXPECT SCT DIURNAL CONVECTION ACROSS THE FA THROUGH FRI WITH
LESS ACTIVITY OVER THE WEEKEND AS UPPER HEIGHTS RISE.

AS FAR AS TEMPS...GUIDANCE IN CLOSE AGREEMENT AND WILL NOT STRAY
TOO FAR.

PRELIMINARY NUMBERS...
MEM 88/69/88/70 4242
MKL 87/64/87/66 4242
JBR 88/66/88/66 4242
TUP 89/67/89/68 4242

.MEG...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 27, 6:22 AM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
622 AM CDT WED JUN 27 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0508 AM    FORREST CITY              AR   1.25 INCH HAIL
06/27/01   ST. FRANCIS                    REPORTED BY ST. FRANCIS
                                          COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE.

0520 AM    1N FORREST CITY           AR   0.88 INCH HAIL
06/27/01   ST. FRANCIS                    REPORTED BY ST. FRANCIS
                                          COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE.

0550 AM    1S CALDWELL               AR   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/27/01   ST. FRANCIS

Local storm report, Jun 27, 6:23 AM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
623 AM CDT WED JUN 27 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0508 AM    FORREST CITY              AR   1.25 INCH HAIL
06/27/01   ST. FRANCIS                    REPORTED BY ST. FRANCIS
                                          COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE.

0520 AM    1N FORREST CITY           AR   0.88 INCH HAIL
06/27/01   ST. FRANCIS                    REPORTED BY ST. FRANCIS
                                          COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE.

0550 AM    1S CALDWELL               AR   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/27/01   ST. FRANCIS                    REPORTED BY ST. FRANCIS
                                          COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 5:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	St. Francis	38 min
Jun 27, 5:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	St. Francis	46 min
Jun 27, 8:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Phillips	35 min
Jun 27, 1:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Greene	54 min
Jun 27, 1:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Mississippi	32 min
Jun 27, 2:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead, Greene	52 min
Jun 27, 3:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Mississippi	48 min
Jun 27, 3:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Mississippi	47 min
Jun 27, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Poinsett	47 min
Jun 27, 4:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Mississippi	43 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 2001 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.