Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2013
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 105, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2013, 5:58 PM CDT for Poinsett County, Arkansas. It was in force for 47 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 5, 2013, 5:58 PM CDT (22:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2013, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Poinsett County, AR
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:58 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 687 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -158 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 952 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 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 5, 4:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 4:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 5, 5:12 PM CDT, 46 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 512 PM CDT WED JUN 5 2013 ARZ008-009-017-018-026>028-035-036-048-049-058-MOZ113-115- MSZ001>017-020>024-TNZ001>004-019>021-048>055-088>092-070015- 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- 512 PM CDT WED JUN 5 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST ARKANSAS... THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL...NORTH MISSISSIPPI...AND WEST TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 40 TONIGHT. THIS AREA INCLUDES NORTHEAST ARKANSAS...THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL...AND WEST TENNESSEE. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS. LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING FROM HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY A FEW STRONG TO PERHAPS ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ON THURSDAY...ESPECIALLY ACROSS NORTH MISSISSIPPI. DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT FOR ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT REACH SEVERE LIMITS. LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING FROM HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TONIGHT ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 40. JLH
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 5, 2:53 PM CDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
253 PM CDT WED JUN 05 2013
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0213 PM TSTM WND DMG 2 W TUPELO 34.26N 88.77W
06/05/2013 LEE MS AMATEUR RADIO
A FEW TREES DOWN ALONG WITH NUMEROUS 3-4 INCH DIAMETER
LIMBS DOWN IN DOWNTOWN TUPELO.
&&
CJCThe office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 11:35 AM CDT | River Flood Advisory | MEG | Dyer, Lauderdale | 10 days |
| Jun 5, 11:35 AM CDT | River Flood Advisory | MEG | Lauderdale, Tipton | 10 days |
| Jun 5, 4:39 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Union | 51 min |
| Jun 5, 5:14 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Tippah | 31 min |
| Jun 5, 5:31 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Lafayette | 29 min |
| Jun 5, 7:03 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Prentiss | 27 min |
| Jun 5, 7:36 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Prentiss, Tishomingo | 24 min |
| Jun 5, 11:18 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Panola | 27 min |
| Jun 5, 11:35 AM CDT | River Flood Advisory | MEG | Tunica | 10 days |
| Jun 5, 11:35 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Panola | 25 min |
| Jun 5, 12:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Panola, Quitman, Tallahatchie, Yalobusha | 3 hr |
| Jun 5, 2:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Lee, Prentiss, Tishomingo | 33 min |
| Jun 5, 2:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Benton, Marshall | 39 min |
| Jun 5, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Craighead, Poinsett | 50 min |
| Jun 5, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crittenden, Cross, Poinsett | 51 min |
| Jun 5, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Cross, Poinsett | 48 min |
| Jun 5, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crittenden, Cross, Mississippi, Poinsett | 46 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.