Alert archive / Arkansas / Special Weather Statements in 2012
Special Weather Statement, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this special weather statement at Aug 3, 2012, 4:13 PM CDT for Clay County, Arkansas. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 3, 2012, 4:13 PM CDT (21:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2012, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
County Clay County, AR
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KBYH), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 1444 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -378 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1655 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
704
WWUS84 KMEG 032113
SPSMEG
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
413 PM CDT FRI AUG 3 2012
ARZ009-032145-
CLAY AR-
413 PM CDT FRI AUG 3 2012
...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 445 PM CDT FOR...
NORTHWESTERN CLAY COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS...
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING WINDS AT LEAST 40 MPH WAS LOCATED 8
MILES NORTH OF SUCCESS AT 414 PM CDT...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE
ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.
PEOPLE IN CLAY COUNTY...INCLUDING LOCATIONS NEAR CORNING...SHOULD
MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY.
&&
LAT...LON 3650 9056 3650 9044 3647 9038 3630 9057
3647 9077 3649 9077 3649 9078 3651 9078
3651 9057
TIME...MOT...LOC 2114Z 313DEG 17KT 3656 9071
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 3:56 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | MEG | Coahoma | 15 hr |
| Aug 3, 3:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Monroe | 27 min |
| Aug 3, 7:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crockett, Dyer, Gibson | 39 min |
| Aug 3, 8:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Hardeman | 30 min |
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.