Alert archive / Arkansas / Wind Advisories in 2008
Wind Advisory 2, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this wind advisory at Jan 6, 2008, 1:13 PM CST for 7 counties in Arkansas; Dunklin County, Pemiscot County, Missouri. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 6, 2008, 1:13 PM CST (19:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 6, 2008, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
Counties Clay County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Greene County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, Randolph County, AR, Dunklin County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:11 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 nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 633 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 307 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 351 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS74 KMEG 061913 NPWMEG URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 113 PM CST SUN JAN 6 2008 ...WINDY CONDITIONS OVER NORTHEAST ARKANSAS AND THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL... .SOUTH WINDS ARE BLOWING AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT LOCATED FROM NORTHERN MISSOURI INTO WESTERN OKLAHOMA. AS A RESULT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 25 TO 30 MPH ARE OCCURRING ACROSS PARTS OF NORTHEAST ARKANSAS AND THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL WITH WIND GUSTS OF 35 TO 40 MPH. ARZ008-009-017-018-026>028-MOZ113-115-070100- /O.NEW.KMEG.WI.Y.0002.080106T1913Z-080107T0100Z/ RANDOLPH-CLAY-LAWRENCE-GREENE-CRAIGHEAD-POINSETT-MISSISSIPPI- DUNKLIN-PEMISCOT- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WALNUT RIDGE...PARAGOULD...JONESBORO... HARRISBURG...BLYTHEVILLE...KENNETT...CARUTHERSVILLE 113 PM CST SUN JAN 6 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST THIS EVENING. SUSTAINED SOUTH WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WILL CONTINUE TO BLOW THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE ADVISORY AREA. WIND GUSTS OF 35 TO 45 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE AS WELL. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 25 TO 39 MPH ARE EXPECTED...OR GUSTS WILL RANGE BETWEEN 40 AND 57 MPH. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS74 KMEG 070107 NPWMEG URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 707 PM CST SUN JAN 6 2008 ARZ008-009-017-018-026>028-MOZ113-115-070215- /O.EXP.KMEG.WI.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-080107T0100Z/ RANDOLPH-CLAY-LAWRENCE-GREENE-CRAIGHEAD-POINSETT-MISSISSIPPI- DUNKLIN-PEMISCOT- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WALNUT RIDGE...PARAGOULD...JONESBORO... HARRISBURG...BLYTHEVILLE...KENNETT...CARUTHERSVILLE 707 PM CST SUN JAN 6 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... THE WIND ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. WINDS HAVE DIMINISHED BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA OVER NORTHEAST ARKANSAS AND THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL THIS EVENING. SOUTHERLY WINDS BETWEEN 10 AND 15 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FOR THE REMAINDER OF TONIGHT, $$ TAB
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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.