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Blowing Dust Advisory 1, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this blowing dust advisory at Apr 10, 2016, 1:17 PM CDT for Coahoma County, Tunica County, Mississippi; 12 counties in Arkansas. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 10, 2016, 1:17 PM CDT (18:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 10, 2016, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 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, Coahoma County, MS, Tunica County, MS
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:17 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 329 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
- 916 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 723 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 861 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this blowing dust advisory 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 blowing dust advisory went out at Apr 10, 9:52 AM CDT, 3 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 10, 9:52 AM CDT, 3 hours 25 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 2:00 PM CDT | Dust Storm Warning | MEG | Clay, Craighead, Greene, Lawrence, Mississippi, Poinsett and 1 more | 7 hr |
Nearby
Blowing Dust Advisories in Arkansas, 2016Blowing Dust Advisories in Mississippi, 2016Every blowing dust advisory in 2016
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.