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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 292, NWS Memphis, TN

May 9, 2006Lawrence County, Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2006, 10:10 AM CDT for Lawrence County, Arkansas. It was in force for 35 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: May 9, 2006, 10:10 AM CDT (15:10 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 2006, 10:45 AM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lawrence County, AR

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 9, 10:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 171 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: 1109 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -120 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 657 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 164 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 211 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.8

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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 May 9, 4:12 AM CDT, 5 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 9, 4:12 AM CDT, 5 hours 58 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
May 9, 11:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lake, Obion	30 min
May 9, 12:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tipton	26 min
May 9, 1:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Shelby	39 min
May 9, 1:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Hardeman	43 min
May 9, 2:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Hardeman, McNairy	40 min
May 9, 3:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Hardin	28 min
May 9, 1:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tate	42 min
May 9, 2:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, Tippah	43 min
May 9, 2:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Panola, Quitman	22 min
May 9, 2:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Marshall	44 min
May 9, 2:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Alcorn	45 min
May 9, 2:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lafayette	36 min
May 9, 3:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Pontotoc, Union	51 min
May 9, 3:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Alcorn, Prentiss, Tishomingo	39 min
May 9, 3:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lee	52 min
May 9, 3:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Monroe	51 min
May 9, 3:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Itawamba	40 min
May 9, 10:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Clay, Greene	44 min
May 9, 10:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead, Lawrence	50 min
May 9, 11:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Mississippi	52 min
May 9, 12:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Cross, St. Francis	48 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.