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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 396, NWS Memphis, TN

May 28, 2006Craighead County, Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2006, 4:59 PM CDT for Craighead County, Arkansas. It was in force for 36 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 28, 2006, 4:59 PM CDT (21:59 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 2006, 5:35 PM CDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Craighead County, AR

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 364 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2006-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1241 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2006-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -20 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1241 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-58 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1137 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.