Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 124, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 1999, 6:47 PM CDT for Craighead County, Arkansas. It was in force for 33 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 23, 1999, 6:47 PM CDT (23:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 1999, 7:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Craighead County, AR
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 669 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 542 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 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 232349 TORMEM ARC031-240020- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 647 PM CDT WED JUN 23 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CRAIGHEAD COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN ARKANSAS * UNTIL 720 PM CDT * AT 646 PM CDT... STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR CASH MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... BONO AROUND 7 PM .IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSFIDE...SEEK REFUGE FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 6:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Poinsett | 35 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.