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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 186, NWS Memphis, TN

June 8, 2022Tunica County, Mississippi; 5 counties in Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2022, 8:43 AM CDT for Tunica County, Mississippi; 5 counties in Arkansas. It was in force for 47 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 8, 2022, 8:43 AM CDT (13:43 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 2022, 9:30 AM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Lee County, AR, Phillips County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, Tunica County, MS

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 63 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1861 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 191 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 217 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.7

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 8, 6:46 AM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 6:46 AM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 8, 8:26 AM CDT, 17 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Memphis TN
826 AM CDT Wed Jun 8 2022

ARZ048-049-058-081400-
St. Francis AR-Phillips AR-Lee AR-
826 AM CDT Wed Jun 8 2022

...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of Lee, southwestern
St. Francis and northeastern Phillips Counties through 900 AM CDT...

At 826 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Wheatley, or 7 miles northeast of Brinkley, moving southeast at 35
mph.

HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects.

Locations impacted include...
Forrest City, Marianna, Madison, Palestine, Caldwell, Wheatley, Lexa,
Moro, Rondo, Aubrey, Haynes, Garret Grove, Brickeys, New Salem,
Lagrange, Cody, Haleside, New Castle, Soudan and Vineyard.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 3500 9115 3500 9104 3515 9104 3515 9098
      3491 9050 3458 9074 3479 9110 3487 9110
      3487 9112 3491 9112 3491 9115
TIME...MOT...LOC 1326Z 306DEG 32KT 3498 9111

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 7:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Lafayette, Panola, Tallahatchie	37 min
Jun 7, 8:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Calhoun	37 min
Jun 7, 8:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Chickasaw, Pontotoc	28 min
Jun 8, 9:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Tunica	29 min
Jun 8, 11:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Prentiss	30 min
Jun 8, 11:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Alcorn, Prentiss, Tippah, Union	22 min
Jun 8, 4:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Tallahatchie	35 min
Jun 8, 5:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Calhoun	34 min
Jun 8, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Calhoun	28 min
Jun 8, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Calhoun, Chickasaw	33 min
Jun 8, 6:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Lee	29 min
Jun 8, 6:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Monroe	27 min
Jun 8, 8:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Lee, St. Francis	34 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.