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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Memphis, TN

March 22, 2005Lee County, Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 22, 2005, 3:19 PM CST for Lee County, Arkansas. It was in force for 26 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 22, 2005, 3:19 PM CST (21:19 UTC)
Expired: Mar 22, 2005, 3:45 PM CST
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lee County, AR

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 22, 12:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 67 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: 6 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -170 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 770 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 0 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 0 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 222119
SVRMEG
ARC077-222145-
/O.NEW.KMEG.SV.W.0021.050322T2119Z-050322T2145Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
319 PM CST TUE MAR 22 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LEE COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 345 PM CST

* AT 314 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES EAST OF RONDO...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTH OF
  WEST HELENA...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO BRICKEYS.

.STAY TUNED TO THIS BROADCAST FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND INFORMATION.
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY...CALL 1 800 4 3 2 0 8 7 5.

LAT...LON 3465 9085 3465 9059 3490 9040 3492 9070

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 22, 3:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Cross, Poinsett	45 min
Mar 22, 3:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Cross	31 min
Mar 22, 4:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead	30 min
Mar 22, 4:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crittenden	24 min
Mar 22, 4:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Cross	17 min
Mar 22, 4:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crittenden, Poinsett	34 min
Mar 22, 4:42 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Poinsett	33 min
Mar 22, 5:06 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Mississippi	24 min
Mar 22, 5:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead	36 min
Mar 22, 5:26 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Mississippi	34 min

Nearby

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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.