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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 24, 2023, 5:43 PM CDT for 4 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
- Mar 24, 2023, 5:43 PM CDT (22:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 24, 2023, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.88 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Craighead County, AR, Cross County, AR, Greene County, AR, Poinsett County, AR
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 5:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 691 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 669 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 394 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 357 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 5.7
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 Mar 24, 3:01 PM CDT, 2 hours 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 24, 3:01 PM CDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 6:55 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | MEG | Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Coahoma, DeSoto and 16 more | 20 hr |
| Mar 24, 9:23 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Dyer | 24 hr |
| Mar 24, 9:27 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Obion, Weakley | 24 hr |
| Mar 24, 9:31 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Dyer, Gibson, Obion | 24 hr |
| Mar 24, 12:08 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Madison | 21 hr |
| Mar 24, 2:12 PM CDT | River Flood Advisory | MEG | Dyer, Lake, Lauderdale | 12 days |
| Mar 24, 12:00 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Craighead | 58 hr |
| Mar 24, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Mississippi, Poinsett | 46 min |
| Mar 24, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee, Phillips, St. Francis | 43 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.