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Special Weather Statement, NWS Memphis, TN

July 2, 2018Phillips County, Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this special weather statement at Jul 2, 2018, 5:13 PM CDT for Phillips County, Arkansas. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 2, 2018, 5:13 PM CDT (22:13 UTC)
Expired: Jul 2, 2018, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN

County Phillips County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 221 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 693 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -114 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1372 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 2, 2:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Shelby	39 min
Jul 2, 2:43 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Shelby	62 min
Jul 2, 4:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Gibson	28 min
Jul 2, 4:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Weakley	35 min
Jul 2, 4:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Coahoma	27 min
Jul 2, 5:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Quitman	39 min
Jul 2, 5:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Coahoma	39 min
Jul 2, 5:59 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Coahoma, Quitman, Tallahatchie	2 hr
Jul 2, 3:36 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	MEG	Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Lawrence and 5 more	16 hr
Jul 2, 6:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Mississippi, Poinsett	35 min
Jul 2, 6:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Mississippi, Poinsett	30 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Arkansas, 2018 Every special weather statement in 2018

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.