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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Memphis, TN

March 9, 2006Clay County, Greene County, Randolph County, Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 9, 2006, 5:00 PM CST for Clay County, Greene County, Randolph County, Arkansas. It was in force for 45 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: Mar 9, 2006, 5:00 PM CST (23:00 UTC)
Expired: Mar 9, 2006, 5:45 PM CST
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Clay County, AR, Greene County, AR, Randolph County, AR

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 173 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: 4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -160 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1010 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 70 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 66 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 Mar 9, 4:15 PM CST, 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 9, 4:15 PM CST, 45 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 9, 3:38 PM CST, 1 hour 22 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 9, 3:06 PM CST, 1 hour 54 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 9, 3:09 PM CST, 1 hour 51 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 9, 4:12 PM CST, 48 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 9, 4:27 PM CST, 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 9, 4:35 PM CST, 25 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
Mar 9, 7:31 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lake, Obion	44 min
Mar 9, 8:41 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Dyer, Lake, Obion	49 min
Mar 9, 8:42 AM CST	Wind Advisory	MEG	Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer, Fayette and 14 more	7 hr
Mar 9, 9:01 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Obion	29 min
Mar 9, 9:32 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Obion	28 min
Mar 9, 9:42 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Weakley	33 min
Mar 9, 9:56 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Obion	25 min
Mar 9, 12:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Shelby, Tipton	45 min
Mar 9, 12:17 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Shelby	118 min
Mar 9, 12:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Dyer, Lauderdale	36 min
Mar 9, 12:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lake	43 min
Mar 9, 12:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Dyer, Lauderdale, Shelby, Tipton	46 min
Mar 9, 1:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Fayette, Haywood	40 min
Mar 9, 1:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Obion	38 min
Mar 9, 1:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crockett	40 min
Mar 9, 1:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Gibson	40 min
Mar 9, 1:43 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Fayette, Hardeman	47 min
Mar 9, 2:07 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	McNairy	38 min
Mar 9, 2:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crockett, Haywood	39 min
Mar 9, 2:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Henry, Weakley	41 min
Mar 9, 2:28 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Hardin	47 min
Mar 9, 2:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chester, Madison	24 min
Mar 9, 3:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Hardin	16 min
Mar 9, 12:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Coahoma, Quitman, Tallahatchie	45 min
Mar 9, 12:20 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Quitman, Tallahatchie	25 min
Mar 9, 12:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Panola	46 min
Mar 9, 12:36 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Panola	39 min
Mar 9, 12:42 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Tallahatchie, Yalobusha	48 min
Mar 9, 1:03 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lafayette, Marshall, Tate	42 min
Mar 9, 1:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Calhoun	49 min
Mar 9, 1:32 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Benton, Union	43 min
Mar 9, 1:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Pontotoc	51 min
Mar 9, 1:46 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Tippah	44 min
Mar 9, 1:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chickasaw	42 min
Mar 9, 2:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lee, Prentiss	51 min
Mar 9, 2:24 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Pontotoc	27 min
Mar 9, 2:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tishomingo	45 min
Mar 9, 2:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chickasaw	38 min
Mar 9, 2:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Itawamba, Monroe	43 min
Mar 9, 2:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Alcorn	23 min
Mar 9, 2:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lee, Prentiss	36 min
Mar 9, 3:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tishomingo	35 min
Mar 9, 3:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Itawamba, Monroe	36 min
Mar 9, 12:19 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Greene, Lawrence	26 min
Mar 9, 12:44 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Clay, Greene	31 min
Mar 9, 5:37 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead, Greene, Lawrence, Poinsett	38 min
Mar 9, 6:17 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead, Poinsett	20 min
Mar 9, 6:28 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Greene	32 min
Mar 9, 6:54 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Cross, Poinsett	36 min
Mar 9, 6:57 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Cross	33 min
Mar 9, 7:29 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Poinsett	16 min
Mar 9, 8:11 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Mississippi	34 min
Mar 9, 9:53 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lawrence, Randolph	37 min
Mar 9, 10:47 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lawrence, Randolph	43 min
Mar 9, 11:11 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead, Greene	49 min
Mar 9, 11:19 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Poinsett	41 min
Mar 9, 11:30 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Clay	45 min
Mar 9, 11:42 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Cross	33 min
Mar 9, 11:44 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Clay, Craighead, Greene, Poinsett	2 hr
Mar 9, 11:47 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crittenden	28 min
Mar 9, 11:58 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead, Greene, Poinsett	47 min
Mar 9, 12:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Mississippi	41 min
Mar 9, 12:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Clay	37 min
Mar 9, 5:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead	39 min
Mar 9, 5:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Mississippi	27 min
Mar 9, 5:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Mississippi	34 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 2006 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006

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.