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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 301

May 27, 200118 counties in Arkansas; 22 counties in Mississippi; Fayette County, Shelby County, Tennessee

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 27, 2001, 5:00 PM CDT for 18 counties in Arkansas; 22 counties in Mississippi; Fayette County, Shelby County, Tennessee. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 27, 2001, 5:00 PM CDT (22:00 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2001, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 42 counties

Arkansas County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Desha County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Lee County, AR, Lincoln County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Phillips County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Benton County, MS, Bolivar County, MS, Calhoun County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Coahoma County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Grenada County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Leflore County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Panola County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Tallahatchie County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tunica County, MS, Union County, MS, Webster County, MS, Yalobusha County, MS, Fayette County, TN, Shelby County, TN

Warnings issued inside it

11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 5:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar	26 min
May 27, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas	50 min
May 27, 6:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Monroe	44 min
May 27, 6:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pulaski, Saline	41 min
May 27, 6:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	DeSoto	34 min
May 27, 7:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas	40 min
May 27, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Phillips	31 min
May 27, 8:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Monroe	39 min
May 27, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Quitman	23 min
May 27, 8:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Monroe	23 min
May 27, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Monroe	32 min

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 98 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1960 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 141 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.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 1:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Benton, Washington	5 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Mississippi, 2001 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Arkansas, 2001 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Tennessee, 2001 Every severe thunderstorm watch 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.