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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 193, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 2015, 3:36 PM CDT for 4 counties in Arkansas. It was in force for 39 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
- Aug 5, 2015, 3:36 PM CDT (20:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2015, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, St. Francis County, AR
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:36 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 1:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 79 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
- 548 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1601 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 Aug 5, 12:20 PM CDT, 3 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 12:20 PM CDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 5, 2:49 PM CDT, 47 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 249 PM CDT WED AUG 5 2015 ARZ008-009-017-018-026>028-035-036-048-049-058-MOZ113-115- MSZ001>017-020>024-TNZ001>004-019>022-048>055-088>092-062200- ALCORN-BENTON MS-BENTON TN-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- 249 PM CDT WED AUG 5 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST ARKANSAS... THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL...NORTH MISSISSIPPI...AND WEST TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A FEW STRONG TO ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY AND TONIGHT WITH DAMAGING WINDS AS THE MAIN THREAT FOR ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT REACH SEVERE LIMITS. LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY SOME STRONG TO PERHAPS ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THURSDAY AND FRIDAY WITH DAMAGING WINDS AS THE MAIN THREAT FOR ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT REACH SEVERE LIMITS. LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. ADDITIONALLY...TEMPERATURES WILL TURN WARMER OVER THE WEEKEND WITH HEAT INDICES APPROACHING 105 DEGREES OR MORE. A HEAT ADVISORY MAY BE NEEDED BY SUNDAY INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED AT TIMES TODAY THROUGH FRIDAY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | DeSoto | 49 min |
| Aug 5, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Shelby, Tipton | 25 min |
| Aug 5, 4:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette, Haywood, Shelby, Tipton | 52 min |
| Aug 5, 4:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Fayette, Shelby | 3 hr |
| Aug 5, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette, Haywood, Madison, Tipton | 29 min |
| Aug 5, 5:13 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MEG | Shelby | 3 hr |
| Aug 5, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette, Hardeman | 41 min |
| Aug 5, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Henderson, Madison | 32 min |
| Aug 5, 12:48 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Lawrence | 42 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 2015Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2015
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.