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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 169, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 2026, 6:46 PM CDT for Clay County, Greene County, Arkansas. It was in force for 44 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
- Jul 9, 2026, 6:46 PM CDT (23:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2026, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 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 23:49 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 349 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
- 425 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 807 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 9:34 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Lauderdale | 26 min |
| Jul 9, 9:59 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Lauderdale | 31 min |
| Jul 9, 11:22 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | MEG | Lauderdale, Shelby, Tipton | 33 hr |
| Jul 9, 2:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Decatur | 37 min |
| Jul 9, 3:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Lee | 31 min |
| Jul 9, 3:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Itawamba | 37 min |
| Jul 9, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Monroe | 48 min |
| Jul 9, 5:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Clay | 29 min |
| Jul 9, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Clay | 51 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.