Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 102, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Apr 5, 1999, 6:45 PM CDT for Randolph County, Arkansas. It was in force for 35 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 5, 1999, 6:45 PM CDT (23:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 5, 1999, 7:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Randolph County, AR
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 7:08 PM CDT | Tornado F2 | Pocahontas, AR | The tornado touched down on the east side of Paragould and moved northeast. The tornado hit a commercial area with several restaurants and other businesses damaged or destroyed. Several trees and power lines were blown down as well. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 1263 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 230 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMEM 052345 RRA TORMEM ARC121-060020- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 645 PM CDT MON APR 5 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... RANDOLPH COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN ARKANSAS * UNTIL 720 PM CDT * AT 643 PM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AND SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF POCAHONTAS... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... POCAHONTAS BY 650 PM CDT MAYNARD BY 700 PM CDT .THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 3:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Poinsett | 32 min |
| Apr 5, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Craighead, Greene | 34 min |
| Apr 5, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lawrence | 31 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.