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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 9, 2021, 5:31 PM CDT for Lee County, Phillips County, Arkansas. It was in force for 27 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
- Apr 9, 2021, 5:31 PM CDT (22:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 9, 2021, 5:58 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Lee County, AR, Phillips County, AR
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 3:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 2139 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted.
560
WUUS54 KMEG 092231
SVRMEG
ARC077-107-092315-
/O.NEW.KMEG.SV.W.0079.210409T2231Z-210409T2315Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Memphis TN
531 PM CDT Fri Apr 9 2021
The National Weather Service in Memphis has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Central Lee County in eastern Arkansas...
Northwestern Phillips County in eastern Arkansas...
* Until 615 PM CDT.
* At 531 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Palmer, or 7
miles west of Marvell, moving northeast at 40 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage
to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Marianna, Marvell, Lexa, Moro, Rondo, Aubrey, Haynes, Watkins
Corner, Lagrange, Jeffersonville, Oak Forest, Westor, Haleside,
Latour, Turkey Scratch, Vineyard, Cypress Corner, Poplar Grove, Big
Creek Corner and Barton.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3473 9105 3491 9085 3491 9081 3470 9056
3467 9059 3466 9058 3466 9055 3467 9054
3466 9052 3464 9055 3465 9056 3464 9058
3463 9059 3442 9100 3447 9100 3447 9106
TIME...MOT...LOC 2231Z 224DEG 34KT 3456 9104
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$1 follow-up statement
200
WWUS54 KMEG 092258
SVSMEG
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Memphis TN
558 PM CDT Fri Apr 9 2021
ARC077-107-092308-
/O.CAN.KMEG.SV.W.0079.000000T0000Z-210409T2315Z/
Lee AR-Phillips AR-
558 PM CDT Fri Apr 9 2021
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL LEE AND NORTHWESTERN
PHILLIPS COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property.
Therefore, the warning has been cancelled.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 1100 PM CDT for
eastern Arkansas...and northwestern Mississippi.
LAT...LON 3473 9105 3491 9085 3491 9081 3470 9056
3467 9059 3466 9058 3466 9055 3467 9054
3466 9052 3464 9055 3465 9056 3464 9058
3463 9059 3442 9100 3447 9100 3447 9106
TIME...MOT...LOC 2255Z 224DEG 34KT 3474 9082
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 3:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Craighead | 23 min |
| Apr 9, 3:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Craighead | 30 min |
| Apr 9, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Craighead, Greene, Mississippi, Poinsett | 48 min |
| Apr 9, 4:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Clay, Craighead, Greene | 53 min |
| Apr 9, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Clay, Greene | 41 min |
| Apr 9, 5:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Lee | 36 min |
| Apr 9, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Phillips | 49 min |
| Apr 9, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Phillips | 40 min |
| Apr 9, 6:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | St. Francis | 26 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.