Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2021
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 21, 2021, 12:56 PM CST for Poinsett County, Arkansas. It was in force for 49 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 21, 2021, 12:56 PM CST (18:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 21, 2021, 1:45 PM CST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
County Poinsett County, AR
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 21, 1:14 PM CST | HAIL 0.88 | Weiner, AR |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -177 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 869 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 273 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 231 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
193 WUUS54 KMEG 211856 SVRMEG ARC111-211945- /O.NEW.KMEG.SV.W.0196.211121T1856Z-211121T1945Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED Severe Thunderstorm Warning National Weather Service Memphis TN 1256 PM CST Sun Nov 21 2021 The National Weather Service in Memphis has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Poinsett County in eastern Arkansas... * Until 145 PM CST. * At 1256 PM CST, a severe thunderstorm was located near Grubbs, or near Newport, moving east at 45 mph. HAZARD...Quarter size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Damage to vehicles is expected. * Locations impacted include... Trumann, Marked Tree, Harrisburg, Weiner, Waldenburg, Greenfield, Payneway, Tulot, Weona Junction, Weona, Hatchie Coon, Stewart, Maple Grove, Promised Land, Uno, Judd Hill, Pitts, Landers, Boat Run and Cassidy. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. Lightning is occurring with this storm. Move indoors immediately. Lightning is one of nature's leading killers. Remember, if you can hear thunder, you are close enough to be struck by lightning. && LAT...LON 3571 9104 3570 9039 3544 9042 3552 9104 TIME...MOT...LOC 1856Z 275DEG 40KT 3564 9113 HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED MAX HAIL SIZE...1.00 IN WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED MAX WIND GUST...<50 MPH $$ SJM
3 follow-up statements
762 WWUS54 KMEG 211918 SVSMEG Severe Weather Statement National Weather Service Memphis TN 118 PM CST Sun Nov 21 2021 ARC111-211945- /O.CON.KMEG.SV.W.0196.000000T0000Z-211121T1945Z/ Poinsett AR- 118 PM CST Sun Nov 21 2021 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 145 PM CST FOR POINSETT COUNTY... At 117 PM CST, a severe thunderstorm was located near Weiner, or 7 miles northwest of Harrisburg, moving east at 50 mph. HAZARD...Quarter size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Damage to vehicles is expected. Locations impacted include... Trumann, Marked Tree, Harrisburg, Weiner, Waldenburg, Greenfield, Payneway, Tulot, Landers, Weona Junction, Weona, Hatchie Coon, Stewart, Boat Run, Cassidy, Maple Grove, Promised Land, Whitaker, McCormick and Northern Ohio. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. Lightning is occurring with this storm. Move indoors immediately. Lightning is one of nature's leading killers. Remember, if you can hear thunder, you are close enough to be struck by lightning. && LAT...LON 3570 9039 3544 9042 3551 9095 3571 9097 TIME...MOT...LOC 1917Z 274DEG 43KT 3562 9083 HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED MAX HAIL SIZE...1.00 IN WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED MAX WIND GUST...<50 MPH $$ SJM
762 WWUS54 KMEG 211927 SVSMEG Severe Weather Statement National Weather Service Memphis TN 127 PM CST Sun Nov 21 2021 ARC111-211945- /O.CON.KMEG.SV.W.0196.000000T0000Z-211121T1945Z/ Poinsett AR- 127 PM CST Sun Nov 21 2021 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 145 PM CST FOR CENTRAL POINSETT COUNTY... At 127 PM CST, a severe thunderstorm was located near Harrisburg, moving east at 45 mph. HAZARD...Quarter size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Damage to vehicles is expected. Locations impacted include... Trumann, Marked Tree, Harrisburg, Greenfield, Payneway, Tulot, Landers, Weona Junction, Weona, Hatchie Coon, Stewart, Boat Run, Cassidy, Maple Grove, Promised Land, Whitaker, McCormick, Northern Ohio, Old Weona and Judd Hill. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. && LAT...LON 3570 9039 3544 9042 3550 9086 3571 9084 TIME...MOT...LOC 1927Z 275DEG 40KT 3561 9069 HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED MAX HAIL SIZE...1.00 IN WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED MAX WIND GUST...<50 MPH $$ KRM
839
WWUS54 KMEG 211943
SVSMEG
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Memphis TN
143 PM CST Sun Nov 21 2021
ARC111-211952-
/O.EXP.KMEG.SV.W.0196.000000T0000Z-211121T1945Z/
Poinsett AR-
143 PM CST Sun Nov 21 2021
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL POINSETT COUNTY WILL
EXPIRE AT 145 PM CST...
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property.
Therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire. However small hail
is still possible with this thunderstorm.
LAT...LON 3570 9039 3544 9042 3550 9086 3571 9084
TIME...MOT...LOC 1942Z 275DEG 40KT 3560 9050
$$
SJMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 21, 2:40 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Cross | 35 min |
| Nov 21, 3:16 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Crittenden | 29 min |
| Nov 21, 3:40 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Crittenden | 35 min |
| Nov 21, 3:45 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | MEG | St. Francis | 30 min |
| Nov 21, 3:47 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Poinsett | 28 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.