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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 426, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2006, 6:50 PM CDT for Greene County, Arkansas. It was in force for 25 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 22, 2006, 6:50 PM CDT (23:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2006, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Greene County, AR
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 302 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1214 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1234 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 22, 2:43 PM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 2:43 PM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 243 PM CDT THU JUN 22 2006 .DISCUSSION... A FEW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED THIS AFTERNOON AND ARE ISOLATED IN NATURE. COLD FRONT CURRENTLY EXTENDS FROM NORTHWEST OHIO INTO CENTRAL OKLAHOMA. THE FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE SOUTHEAST OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. AS THE FRONT GETS CLOSER THEY MAY BE A FEW THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA SO KEPT CHANCE POPS THERE TONIGHT WITH SLIGHT CHANCE POPS ELSEWHERE. MODELS ARE IN LITTLE AGREEMENT REGARDING THE MOVEMENT OF THE FRONT AND STRENGTH OF THE FRONT. WITH THAT IN MIND HAVE LOWERED POPS DOWN SOME FOR FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT KEEPING EVERYBODY IN CHANCE CATEGORY. WITH SO MUCH UNCERTAINTY TO WHERE THE COLD FRONT WILL BE ON SATURDAY HAVE KEPT SLIGHT CHANCE POPS IN FOR ENTIRE FORECAST AREA FOR SATURDAY AND FOR EASTERN SECTIONS FOR SATURDAY EVENING. BY SUNDAY HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD IN AND SHOULD KEEP DRY AND SOMEWHAT COOLER WEATHER OVER THE REGION FOR MUCH OF NEXT WEEK. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... MEM 76 91 70 88 / 20 30 30 20 MKL 73 89 67 86 / 20 30 30 20 JBR 73 89 68 87 / 40 40 30 20 TUP 72 93 70 88 / 20 30 30 20 && .MEG WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...NONE. MO...NONE. MS...NONE. TN...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 22, 6:15 AM CDT, 12 hours 35 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 615 AM CDT THU JUN 22 2006 ARZ008-009-017-018-026>028-035-036-048-049-058-MOZ113-115- MSZ001>017-020>024-TNZ001>004-019>021-048>055-088>092-231100- ALCORN-BENTON(MS)-CALHOUN-CARROLL-CHESTER-CHICKASAW-CLAY-COAHOMA- CRAIGHEAD-CRITTENDEN-CROCKETT-CROSS-DESOTO-DECATUR-DUNKLIN-DYER- FAYETTE-GIBSON-GREENE-HARDEMAN-HARDIN-HAYWOOD-HENDERSON-HENRY- ITAWAMBA-LAFAYETTE-LAKE-LAUDERDALE-LAWRENCE-LEE(AR)-LEE(MS)- MADISON-MARSHALL-MCNAIRY-MISSISSIPPI-MONROE-OBION-PANOLA-PEMISCOT- PHILLIPS-POINSETT-PONTOTOC-PRENTISS-QUITMAN-RANDOLPH-SHELBY- ST. FRANCIS-TALLAHATCHIE-TATE-TIPPAH-TIPTON-TISHOMINGO-TUNICA- UNION-WEAKLEY-YALOBUSHA- 615 AM CDT THU JUN 22 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST ARKANSAS... THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL...NORTH MISSISSIPPI...AND WEST TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A WARM AND MOIST UNSTABLE AIRMASS ALONG WITH DAYTIME HEATING TODAY WILL RESULT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE MID SOUTH. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS...DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND HEAVY RAINFALL. THE TIME OF GREATEST THREAT IS BETWEEN 12 PM AND 8 PM. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE MID SOUTH FRIDAY NIGHT. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AGAIN IN THE WARM AND MOIST UNSTABLE AIRMASS. SOME THUNDERSTORMS WHICH DEVELOP FRIDAY AFTERNOON HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE WITH HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS AS THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREATS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED FRIDAY AFTERNOON.
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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.