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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 161, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2024, 11:14 PM CDT for Clay County, Greene County, Arkansas. It was in force for 46 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, 2024, 11:14 PM CDT (04:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2024, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Clay County, AR, Greene County, AR
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 305 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
- 2715 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1157 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 10.3
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, 6:33 PM CDT, 4 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 6:33 PM CDT, 4 hours 41 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 8, 10:58 PM CDT, 16 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Memphis TN
1058 PM CDT Sat Jun 8 2024
ARZ009-018-090430-
Greene AR-Clay AR-
1058 PM CDT Sat Jun 8 2024
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT NORTHWESTERN GREENE AND WESTERN
CLAY COUNTIES THROUGH 1130 PM CDT...
At 1057 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Doniphan, moving southeast at 40 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Corning, Reyno, Knobel, Success, Peach Orchard, Delaplaine, Datto,
Heelstring, Stonewall, Tipperary, Case, Brookings, Knob, Twin Oaks,
and Palatka.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 100 AM CDT for
eastern Arkansas.
&&
LAT...LON 3650 9058 3628 9038 3616 9080 3618 9081
3629 9081 3630 9079 3628 9078 3628 9075
3641 9075 3641 9077 3642 9076 3643 9078
3643 9077 3644 9078 3649 9077 3650 9078
TIME...MOT...LOC 0357Z 314DEG 37KT 3653 9086
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
JPRThe office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 12:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Dyer, Lake, Lauderdale, Obion | 44 min |
| Jun 9, 12:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crockett, Dyer, Gibson, Haywood, Lauderdale, Obion and 2 more | 45 min |
| Jun 9, 1:19 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Fayette, Haywood, Madison | 26 min |
| Jun 9, 1:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Carroll, Gibson, Henry, Obion, Weakley | 47 min |
| Jun 9, 1:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Haywood, Henderson, Madison | 47 min |
| Jun 9, 2:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Benton, Carroll, Henry | 50 min |
| Jun 9, 2:14 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Chester, Decatur, Henderson | 31 min |
| Jun 9, 2:42 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Decatur, Hardin, McNairy | 33 min |
| Jun 9, 10:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Lauderdale | 32 min |
| Jun 9, 5:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Panola | 26 min |
| Jun 9, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee, Pontotoc | 50 min |
| Jun 9, 5:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Lafayette | 26 min |
| Jun 9, 5:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Itawamba | 23 min |
| Jun 9, 5:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Lee | 31 min |
| Jun 9, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe | 36 min |
| Jun 9, 6:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Pontotoc | 30 min |
| Jun 9, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chickasaw, Lee, Monroe, Pontotoc | 20 min |
| Jun 9, 6:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Monroe | 37 min |
| Jun 9, 6:46 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MEG | Lee, Pontotoc | 3 hr |
| Jun 9, 6:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Chickasaw | 24 min |
| Jun 8, 10:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Clay | 32 min |
| Jun 8, 11:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Clay, Craighead, Greene, Mississippi | 50 min |
| Jun 9, 12:31 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Poinsett | 29 min |
| Jun 9, 6:38 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Clay, Greene | 37 min |
| Jun 9, 7:31 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Mississippi | 29 min |
| Jun 9, 9:20 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Greene | 25 min |
| Jun 9, 9:47 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Greene | 28 min |
| Jun 9, 10:16 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Mississippi | 29 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.