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Special Weather Statement, NWS Memphis, TN

July 29, 2019Craighead County, Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this special weather statement at Jul 29, 2019, 2:25 PM CDT for Craighead County, Arkansas. It was in force for 35 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 29, 2019, 2:25 PM CDT (19:25 UTC)
Expired: Jul 29, 2019, 3:00 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN

County Craighead County, AR

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 301 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: 39 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -90 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1133 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 100 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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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 29, 5:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Tunica	35 min
Jul 29, 5:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	DeSoto	35 min
Jul 29, 4:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Tipton	47 min
Jul 29, 6:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Shelby	39 min
Jul 29, 1:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Greene	38 min
Jul 29, 3:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Craighead	43 min
Jul 29, 3:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Poinsett	14 min
Jul 29, 3:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Mississippi	41 min
Jul 29, 4:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Crittenden	40 min
Jul 29, 4:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	St. Francis	48 min
Jul 29, 5:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Crittenden	40 min
Jul 29, 5:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Crittenden	25 min
Jul 29, 3:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Dunklin	44 min
Jul 29, 3:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Pemiscot	27 min

Nearby

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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.