Alert archive / Arkansas / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 6, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this wind advisory at Mar 17, 2011, 1:08 PM CDT for 12 counties in Arkansas; Coahoma County, Tunica County, Mississippi; Dunklin County, Pemiscot County, Missouri. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 17, 2011, 1:08 PM CDT (18:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 2011, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
Counties Clay County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Greene County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Lee County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Phillips County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, Randolph County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, Dunklin County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO, Coahoma County, MS, Tunica County, MS
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 768 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
885 WWUS74 KMEG 171808 NPWMEG URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 108 PM CDT THU MAR 17 2011 ...GUSTY WINDS THIS AFTERNOON... ARZ008-009-017-018-026>028-035-036-048-049-058-MOZ113-115-MSZ007- 010-180000- /O.NEW.KMEG.WI.Y.0006.110317T1808Z-110318T0000Z/ RANDOLPH-CLAY-LAWRENCE-GREENE-CRAIGHEAD-POINSETT-MISSISSIPPI- CROSS-CRITTENDEN-ST. FRANCIS-LEE AR-PHILLIPS-DUNKLIN-PEMISCOT- TUNICA-COAHOMA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WALNUT RIDGE...PARAGOULD...JONESBORO... HARRISBURG...BLYTHEVILLE...WYNNE...WEST MEMPHIS...FORREST CITY... HELENA...KENNETT...CARUTHERSVILLE...TUNICA...CLARKSDALE 108 PM CDT THU MAR 17 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * WINDS: SOUTH SUSTAINED WINDS OF 25 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 40 MPH. * TIMING: NOW THROUGH LATE AFTERNOON. * IMPACTS: EAST TO WEST DRIVING HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES MAY EXPERIENCE DIFFICULT TRAVEL CONDITIONS. LOOSE OUTDOOR OBJECTS MAY ALSO BLOW AROUND. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 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. && $$ BORGHOFF
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.