Alert archive / Arkansas / Wind Advisories in 2016
Wind Advisory 4, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this wind advisory at Feb 19, 2016, 10:30 AM CST for 12 counties in Arkansas; Dunklin County, Pemiscot County, Missouri. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 19, 2016, 10:30 AM CST (16:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 19, 2016, 3:00 PM CST
- In force
- 5 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
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:33 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, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 760 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 508 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 639 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
204 WWUS74 KMEG 191630 NPWMEG URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1030 AM CST FRI FEB 19 2016 ARZ008-009-017-018-026>028-035-036-048-049-058-MOZ113-115-192100- /O.NEW.KMEG.WI.Y.0004.160219T1630Z-160219T2100Z/ RANDOLPH-CLAY-LAWRENCE-GREENE-CRAIGHEAD-POINSETT-MISSISSIPPI- CROSS-CRITTENDEN-ST. FRANCIS-LEE AR-PHILLIPS-DUNKLIN-PEMISCOT- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...POCAHONTAS...PIGGOTT...CORNING... WALNUT RIDGE...PARAGOULD...JONESBORO...HARRISBURG...BLYTHEVILLE... WYNNE...WEST MEMPHIS...FORREST CITY...MARIANNA...HELENA... WEST HELENA...KENNETT...CARUTHERSVILLE 1030 AM CST FRI FEB 19 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST WINDS 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 40 MPH * TIMING...THROUGH 3 PM CST * IMPACTS...SMALL TREE LIMBS MAY BE BLOWN DOWN. UNSECURED OUTDOOR OBJECTS SUCH AS GARBAGE CANS MAY BE BLOWN ONTO ROADS. HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES WILL BE DIFFICULT TO HANDLE. 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. && $$ KRM
1 follow-up statement
857 WWUS74 KMEG 192103 NPWMEG URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 303 PM CST FRI FEB 19 2016 ARZ008-009-017-018-026>028-035-036-048-049-058-MOZ113-115-192215- /O.EXP.KMEG.WI.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-160219T2100Z/ RANDOLPH-CLAY-LAWRENCE-GREENE-CRAIGHEAD-POINSETT-MISSISSIPPI- CROSS-CRITTENDEN-ST. FRANCIS-LEE AR-PHILLIPS-DUNKLIN-PEMISCOT- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...POCAHONTAS...PIGGOTT...CORNING... WALNUT RIDGE...PARAGOULD...JONESBORO...HARRISBURG...BLYTHEVILLE... WYNNE...WEST MEMPHIS...FORREST CITY...MARIANNA...HELENA... WEST HELENA...KENNETT...CARUTHERSVILLE 303 PM CST FRI FEB 19 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO DIE DOWN INTO THE EVENING HOURS. THUS THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$ KRM
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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.