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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 181, NWS Memphis, TN

June 14, 2004Poinsett County, Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2004, 3:28 PM CDT for Poinsett County, Arkansas. It was in force for 32 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, 2004, 3:28 PM CDT (20:28 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2004, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Poinsett County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 105 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: 102 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -193 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1290 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 14, 3:26 PM CDT, 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 3:26 PM CDT, 2 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
326 PM CDT MON JUN 14 2004

.DISCUSSION...
SCT TO ISOLD THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING TO DEVELOP THIS AFTN ACRS THE
AREA IN FAIRLY UNSTABLE ENVIRONMENT. CAPES ARE 2500-3000 J/KG AND A
SEVERE STORM WILL BE POSSIBLE INTO THE EARLY EVENING WITH HAIL
BEING THE MAIN THREAT.

UPPER LOW OVR TX WITH STRONG HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE OVER THE SE U.S.
THIS AFTN. TROPICAL DISTURBANCE CURRENTLY LOCATED ALONG THE GULF
COAST WITH SCT TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE REGION. EXPECT
THIS DISTURBANCE TO MOVE INLAND INTO AR ON TUE. DEEP SOUTHERLY FLOW
WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE REGION AND BRING PLENTY OF MOISTURE
NORTHWARD. EXPECT A BAND OF NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO
MOVE INTO NRN MS TONIGHT AND NORTHWARD THROUGH THE MID SOUTH ON TUE.

BY WED MAIN UPPER TROF ENCROACHES ON THE AREA.. DEEP MOISTURE IN
PLACE WILL LEAD TO MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...ESPECIALLY WRN
HALF. THIS UPPER SYSTEM WEAKENS ACROSS THE AREA ON THU AS A
COLD FRONT APPROACHES FROM THE NW. EXPECT THIS FRONT TO STALL
SOMEWHERE OVER THE REGION LATE THIS WEEK WITH ZONAL FLOW ALOFT. GFS
BRINGS ANOTHER FRONT THROUGH DURING THE WEEKEND. UNCLEAR WHETHER
THESE FRONTS WILL EVER MAKE IT THROUGH SO WILL CONT TO HEDGE WITH
LOW POPS AND SEASONABLE TEMPS.

&&

.MEG...WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
AR...NONE.
MS...NONE.
MO...NONE.
TN...NONE.
&&

SJM

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 14, 10:49 AM CDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 7:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Lee, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Union	3 hr
Jun 14, 4:52 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Shelby	53 min
Jun 13, 8:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crittenden	29 min
Jun 13, 9:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Mississippi	31 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 2004 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004

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.