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Blowing Dust Advisory 2, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this blowing dust advisory at May 17, 2017, 1:32 PM CDT for 8 counties in Arkansas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 17, 2017, 1:32 PM CDT (18:32 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 2017, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
Counties Clay County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Cross County, AR, Greene County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, Randolph County, AR
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 (KBYH), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 824 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 May 17, 12:43 PM CDT, 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 17, 12:43 PM CDT, 49 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 17, 12:48 PM CDT, 44 minutes before
Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Memphis TN 1248 PM CDT Wed May 17 2017 ARZ008-009-017-018-026>028-035-036-048-049-058-MOZ113-115-MSZ007- 010-TNZ001-172300- Randolph-Clay-Lawrence-Greene-Craighead-Poinsett-Mississippi- Cross-Crittenden-St. Francis-Lee AR-Phillips-Dunklin-Pemiscot- Tunica-Coahoma-Lake- Including the cities of Pocahontas, Piggott, Corning, Walnut Ridge, Paragould, Jonesboro, Harrisburg, Blytheville, Wynne, West Memphis, Forrest City, Marianna, Helena, West Helena, Kennett, Caruthersville, Tunica, Clarksdale, and Tiptonville 1248 PM CDT Wed May 17 2017 ...Blowing Dust will Reduce Visibilities Today... Strong winds will combine with dry top soil from freshly plowed fields in open areas to produce blowing dust today. This will mainly impact the delta areas of northeast and east Arkansas, the Missouri Bootheel, far northwest Tennessee, and far northwest Mississippi. Strong winds between 20 and 30 mph, with gusts up to 40 mph, will result in blowing dust that will reduce visibilities to 2 mile or less at times. Localized visibility reductions below one half mile at times will be possible. Please reduce highway speeds and allow extra spacing between vehicles ahead while driving today in areas where blowing dust is occurring. Remember, visibilities may be reduced sharply in short distances. JLH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 2:28 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | MEG | Dyer, Lake, Lauderdale, Obion, Shelby, Tipton | 16 hr |
| May 17, 5:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Cross | 30 min |
| May 17, 5:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Mississippi | 28 min |
| May 17, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crittenden, Cross, St. Francis | 38 min |
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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.