Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2000, 11:54 PM CDT for Greene County, Randolph County, Arkansas. It was in force for 36 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
- May 24, 2000, 11:54 PM CDT (04:54 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2000, 12:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Greene County, AR, Randolph County, AR
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 12:15 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Marmaduke, AR | Some trees and power lines were knocked down. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| May 24, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 2916 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -153 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1201 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
320 WUUS54 KMEG 250454 SVRMEM ARC055-121-250530- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1154 PM CDT WED MAY 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GREENE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST ARKANSAS RANDOLPH COUNTY IN NORTHEAST ARKANSAS * UNTIL 1230 AM CDT * AT 1149 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES WEST OF POCAHONTAS...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BIGGERS AROUND MIDNIGHT CDT DELAPLAINE...EVENING STAR AROUND 1205 AM CDT BEECH GROVE AROUND 1210 AM CDT LAFE AROUND 1220 AM CDT MARMADUKE AROUND 1225 AM CDT .THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 11:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lawrence | 28 min |
| May 25, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Clay | 30 min |
| May 25, 12:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Craighead, Mississippi | 43 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.