Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Warnings in 1991
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 1991, 9:02 PM CDT for Mississippi County, Poinsett County, Arkansas. It was in force for 39 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 12, 1991, 9:02 PM CDT (02:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 1991, 9:41 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Mississippi County, AR, Poinsett County, AR
The nearest sounding before it
Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 838 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1080 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMEM 130201 TORMEM ARC093-111-130300- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 902 PM CDT WED JUN 12 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST ARKANSAS ...SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI COUNTY...EASTERN POINSETT COUNTY AT 855 PM...RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO JUST NORTHEAST OF TRUMAN. THE STORM WAS MOVING SLOWLY EAST SOUTHEAST. PERSONS IN THE TOWN OF RIVERDALE ARKANSAS SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT eIS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
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, Jun 12, 7:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
TNZ015-130215- URBAN FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 712 PM CDT WED JUN 12 1991 LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL HAS BEEN OCCURING FROM THE MIDTOWN AREA OF MEMPHIS SOUTHWARD TO THE MISSISSIPPI BORDER. STREET FLOODING WAS OCCUR AT THE INTERSECTION OF BELLEVUE AND AGNES IN MEMPHIS WHERE AN ESTIMATE INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE PAST 2 HOURS OR SO. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TONIGHT AND MAY PRODUCED SOME LOCALIZED STREET FLOODING IN THE MEMPHIS METROPOLITAN AREA. IF YOU ARE TRAVELING AROUND THE MEMPHIS AREA TONIGHT...USE CAUTION. WATCH OUT FOR AREAS WHERE THE WATER MAY FILL THE ROADWAYS.
Special weather statement, Jun 12, 7:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
TNZ015-130215- URBAN FLOOD STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 712 PM CDT WED JUN 12 1991 LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL HAS BEEN OCCURING FROM THE MIDTOWN AREA OF MEMPHIS SOUTHWARD TO THE MISSISSIPPI BORDER. STREET FLOODING WAS OCCUR AT THE INTERSECTION OF BELLEVUE AND AGNES IN MEMPHIS WHERE AN ESTIMATE OF THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE PAST 2 HOURS OR SO. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TONIGHT AND MAY PRODUCED SOME LOCALIZED STREET FLOODING IN THE MEMPHIS METROPOLITAN AREA. IF YOU ARE TRAVELING AROUND THE MEMPHIS AREA TONIGHT...USE CAUTION. WATCH OUT FOR AREAS WHERE THE WATER MAY FILL THE ROADWAYS.
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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.