The remnants of a previous outflow boundary interacted with an unstable atmosphere to trigger a lone severe thunderstorm across portions of the Missouri Bootheel during the late afternoon hours of June 16th.
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The episode as NWS MEG wrote it up.
The remnants of a previous outflow boundary interacted with an unstable atmosphere to trigger a lone severe thunderstorm across portions of the Missouri Bootheel during the late afternoon hours of June 16th.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jun 16, 2:36 PM CST, 1 hour 29 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Memphis TN 336 PM CDT Sun Jun 16 2019 .DISCUSSION... A steamy afternoon across the Mid-South at this hour. Temperatures generally range from the upper 80s to 90 degrees. The hottest spot is currently West Memphis, AR where the heat index has crept into the triple digits over the past hour. Convection has been largely confined near an outflow boundary over over north Mississippi today. Storms have remained sub severe so far, with winds peaking around 40 mph with the strongest of cores. Latest KNQA radar shows storms just beginning to fire up to our west over east-central Arkansas. This activity is expected to push into northeast Arkansas and then lift through northwest Tennessee through this evening. A few storms could be strong to severe with damaging winds as the main threat. After sundown, most activity should come to an end. Monday through Wednesday... Broad upper level split flow will result in unsettled weather through this timeframe. The first of multiple shortwaves is progged to move through the region tomorrow afternoon and into the early morning hours on Tuesday. The best height falls will occur across the northern half of the area. The aforementioned area will have the best chance of strong to possibly a couple severe storms on Monday, with damaging winds as the main threat. Expect highs in the mid to upper 80s. A weak surface low will track across the Ozarks on Tuesday and stall a boundary out across the area. This will serve as a focus for storms on Tuesday. However, coverage should be a bit lower than Monday as heights will build behind the exiting wave by late afternoon. Another subtle shortwave will move into the Lower Mississippi Valley on Wednesday and spawn more widespread convection. Models are now hinting at yet another more pronounced shortwave pivoting through the area on Thursday in addition to a deepening surface low tracking near St. Louis. This wave will have more of a positive tilt to it, and a surface trough moving into the Mid- South. With quite a bit of instability and moderate dynamics, organized strong to severe storms are possible on Thursday. Will go ahead and add that to the HWO. Friday through next Weekend... We will finally see a brief break from the clouds and precipitation, but that means the heat will turn up on Friday. Heat indices will hit the triple digits west of the Mississippi River on Friday with upper 90s across the rest of the area. Would not be surprised if a couple of spots in northeast Arkansas meet 105F heat advisory criteria on Friday as a 590dm ridge builds in. By Saturday, the upper level pattern will become unsettled once again as a shortwave, embedded in southwest flow aloft, approaches the area from the west. Multiple waves will rotate through the Mid-South through early next week with good chances for showers and thunderstorms each day. AC3 && .AVIATION... 18Z TAFs Short term convection-allowing models (CAMs) continued to struggle with evolution of TSRA over the Arklamiss, into north MS this morning, often failing to initialize ongoing convection. 18Z MEM TAF delayed TSRA onset to 20Z, to account for possible development along the northwest flank of TSRA moving through north MS. Confidence not great however, given comparatively more stable appearance to the cumulus field on GOES visible imagery, and overlying convective cirrus from TSRA to south. PWB && .MEG WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...None. MO...None. MS...None. TN...None. &&
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Memphis TN 339 PM CDT Sun Jun 16 2019 ARZ009-018-026>028-035-036-048-049-058-MOZ113-115-MSZ001>017- 020>024-TNZ001>004-019>022-048>055-088>092-172245- Alcorn-Benton MS-Benton TN-Calhoun-Carroll-Chester-Chickasaw-Clay- Coahoma-Craighead-Crittenden-Crockett-Cross-DeSoto-Decatur- Dunklin-Dyer-Fayette-Gibson-Greene-Hardeman-Hardin-Haywood- Henderson-Henry-Itawamba-Lafayette-Lake-Lauderdale-Lee AR-Lee MS- Madison-Marshall-McNairy-Mississippi-Monroe-Obion-Panola-Pemiscot- Phillips-Poinsett-Pontotoc-Prentiss-Quitman-Shelby-St. Francis- Tallahatchie-Tate-Tippah-Tipton-Tishomingo-Tunica-Union-Weakley- Yalobusha- 339 PM CDT Sun Jun 16 2019 This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of East Arkansas... the Missouri Bootheel...North Mississippi...and West Tennessee. .DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight A few strong storms will be possible this afternoon into the early evening hours. The primary hazard will be damaging winds. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday Additional strong storms will be possible across portions of the Mid-South Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not anticipated at this time. AC3
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
426 PM CDT SUN JUN 16 2019
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0358 PM TSTM WND GST 2 ENE JONESBORO 35.83N 90.65W
06/16/2019 M58 MPH CRAIGHEAD AR ASOS
MEASURED 50KT WIND GUST.
&&
KRFPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
433 PM CDT SUN JUN 16 2019
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0413 PM TSTM WND DMG BAY 35.74N 90.56W
06/16/2019 CRAIGHEAD AR TRAINED SPOTTER
TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTER AN OVERTUTNED SEMI ON
INTERSTATE 555 - NEAR MILE MARKER 31.
&&
KRFSpecial Weather Statement
National Weather Service Memphis TN
433 PM CDT Sun Jun 16 2019
ARZ026-028-162215-
Craighead AR-Mississippi AR-
433 PM CDT Sun Jun 16 2019
...A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED UNTIL 515 PM CDT
FOR...
Southeastern Craighead County in eastern Arkansas...
Northwestern Mississippi County in eastern Arkansas...
At 433 PM CDT...a strong thunderstorm producing pea size hail or
larger and winds at least 40 mph was located near Keiser, moving
northeast at 25 mph.
Very heavy rain along with continuous cloud to ground lightning are
also possible with this thunderstorm.
People in southeastern Craighead and northwestern Mississippi
Counties should monitor this storm closely.
LAT...LON 3575 8993 3573 8996 3570 8996 3570 9038
3600 9028 3600 8977
TIME...MOT...LOC 2133Z 213DEG 15KT 3572 9016Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Memphis TN
452 PM CDT Sun Jun 16 2019
MOZ113-115-162245-
Pemiscot MO-Dunklin MO-
452 PM CDT Sun Jun 16 2019
...A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED UNTIL 545 PM CDT
FOR...
Pemiscot County in southeastern Missouri...
Southeastern Dunklin County in southeastern Missouri...
At 452 PM CDT...a strong thunderstorm producing pea size hail or
larger and winds at least 40 mph was located 7 miles southwest of
Deering, or 8 miles west of Steele, moving northeast at 30 mph.
Very heavy rain along with continuous cloud to ground lightning are
also possible with this thunderstorm.
People in Pemiscot and southeastern Dunklin Counties should monitor
this storm closely.
LAT...LON 3640 8967 3641 8962 3640 8959 3635 8956
3634 8957 3634 8962 3632 8962 3630 8960
3625 8964 3625 8970 3624 8971 3621 8967
3600 8983 3600 9015 3639 8996 3639 8975
3643 8973
TIME...MOT...LOC 2152Z 222DEG 26KT 3612 8999PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
501 PM CDT SUN JUN 16 2019
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0413 PM TSTM WND DMG BAY 35.74N 90.56W
06/16/2019 CRAIGHEAD AR TRAINED SPOTTER
TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TO DOLLAR
GENERAL IN BAY, AR.
&&
KRFSpecial Weather Statement
National Weather Service Memphis TN
503 PM CDT Sun Jun 16 2019
ARZ009-MOZ113-162230-
Clay AR-Dunklin MO-
503 PM CDT Sun Jun 16 2019
...A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED UNTIL 530 PM CDT
FOR...
Northeastern Clay County in eastern Arkansas...
Northeastern Dunklin County in southeastern Missouri...
At 503 PM CDT...a strong thunderstorm producing pea size hail or
larger and winds at least 40 mph was located near Corning, moving
northeast at 10 mph.
Very heavy rain along with continuous cloud to ground lightning are
also possible with this thunderstorm.
People in northeastern Clay and northeastern Dunklin Counties should
monitor this storm closely.
LAT...LON 3663 8996 3661 8996 3640 9025 3640 9062
3650 9056 3650 9022 3654 9021 3655 9019
3659 9019 3663 9015
TIME...MOT...LOC 2203Z 224DEG 9KT 3645 9050The Memphis radar (KNQA), 79 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:03 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Large tree limbs and power lines down in town.
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