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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Apr 3, 1989, 9:34 PM CDT for Cross County, Arkansas. It was in force for 26 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 3, 1989, 9:34 PM CDT (02:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 1989, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cross County, AR
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3544 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 336 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMEM 040236
TORMEM
ARC037-040300-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
934 PM CDT MON APR 3 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN EAST ARKANSAS
...CROSS
AT 933 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO ASSOCIATED WITH A
THUNDERSTORM BETWEEN HICKORY RIDGE AND CHERRY VALLEY IN NORTHERN CROSS
COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH AND WILL AFFECT
MUCH OF CROSS COUNTY BETWEEN 935 PM AND 10 PM TONIGHT.
IF YOU LIVE IN A HOME OR APARTMENT...SEEK SHELTER IN THE
INNERMOST PORTION OF THE BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. GET TO
A BASEMENT IF ONE IS AVAILABLE. AVOID WINDOWS AND PROTECT YOUR
BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS WITH CUSHIONS...BLANKETS...OR PILLOWS.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 3, 7:05 PM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 700 PM CDT MON APR 03 1989 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 78 CONTINUES TO AFFECT PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST ARKANAS... ...LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVING TOWARD NORTHEAST ARKANSAS... A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS AT 7 PM EXTENDED FROM SOUTH OF CAPE GIRARDEAU MISSOURI TO NORTH-CENTRAL ARKANSAS NEAR VAN BUREN. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE HAD HISTORY OF PRODUCING HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS LINE IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AROUND 20 MPH SO IN A COUPLE OF HOURS THE LINE SHOULD BE REACHING CLAY AND GREENE COUNTIES IN NORTHEAST ARKANSAS...SO RESIDENTS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR SEVERE WEATHER AND CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER IN FORMATION VIA NOAA WEATHER RADIO...TELEVISION AND COMMERCIAL RADIO SHOULD YOU EXPERIENCE SEVERE WEATHER...INFORM YOUR LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND REQUEST THAT THEY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 8:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Craighead, Poinsett | 29 min |
| Apr 3, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Poinsett | 33 min |
| Apr 3, 8:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Craighead | 27 min |
| Apr 3, 9:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Mississippi | 35 min |
| Apr 3, 9:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Poinsett | 38 min |
| Apr 3, 9:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Mississippi | 26 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.