Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Mar 6, 1992, 5:13 PM CST for Lee County, St. Francis County, Arkansas. It was in force for 32 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 6, 1992, 5:13 PM CST (23:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 6, 1992, 5:45 PM CST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lee County, AR, St. Francis County, AR
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 294 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
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -261 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1133 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 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 062317 COR TORMEM ARC077-123-062345- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED...CORRECTION FOR LEE COUNTY TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 513 PM CST FRI MAR 6 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST ARKANSAS ...NORTHWESTERN LEE COUNTY...SOUTHWESTERN ST.FRANCIS COUNTY RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR FARGO IN NORTHERN MONROE COUNTY. THE STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL MOVE ALONG OR NEAR THE ST. FRANCIS-LEE COUNTY LINE. THE STORM WILL EFFECT THE TOWNS OF POSSEY AND WHEATLEY IN THE NEXT 20 MINUTES. PERSONS IN POSSEY AND WHEATLEY NEED TO SEEK SHELTER IMMEDAITELY! 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 IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLUOOR. 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, Mar 6, 3:13 PM CST, 2 hours before
ARZ012-013-014-062215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 314 PM CST FRI MAR 6 1992 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST ARKANSAS UNTIL 8PM THIS EVENING... AT 300 PM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL ARKANSAS ACROSS PARTS OF FAULKNER...WHITE AND CLEBURNE COUNTIES. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AND MOVE INTO NORTHEAST ARKANSAS DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY CONTAIN LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. PERSONS IN NORTHEAST ARKANSAS SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER CONDITIONS AND SEEK SHELTER IF THUNDERSTORMS YOUR AREA. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES.
Special weather statement, Mar 6, 4:51 PM CST, 22 minutes before
TNZ014-015-MSZ001-ARZ012-013-014-062345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 446 PM CST FRI MAR 6 1992 A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST ARKANSAS...PART OF WEST TENNESSEE AND NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI... AT 440 PM...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED ON THE GROUND JUST WEST OF LAKE DES ARC IN NORTHERN PRAIRIE COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP THIS EVENING OVER THE MID-SOUTH. THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE TORNADOES AS WELL AS LARGE HAIL...DESTRUCTIVE WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINFALL. PERSONS IN THE WATCH SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER AND MOVE INDOORS IF THUNDERSTORMS THREATEN YOUR AREA. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 8:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee | 43 min |
| Mar 5, 8:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crittenden, St. Francis | 45 min |
| Mar 5, 9:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Mississippi, Poinsett | 51 min |
| Mar 5, 9:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crittenden | 50 min |
Nearby
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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.