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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 127, NWS Memphis, TN

May 26, 2000Craighead County, Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2000, 2:31 PM CDT for Craighead County, Arkansas. It was in force for 29 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: May 26, 2000, 2:31 PM CDT (19:31 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2000, 3:00 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Craighead County, AR

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:35 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.

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 26, 2:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 398 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -152 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1121 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 80 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

739 
WUUS54 KMEG 261932
SVRMEM
ARC031-262000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
231 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CRAIGHEAD COUNTY IN NORTHEAST ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 300 PM CDT

* AT 229 PM CDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER
  JONESBORO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

  AT 225 PM...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED POWER LINES DOWN IN THE 
  CITY OF JONESBORO. 

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BROOKLAND AROUND 250 PM CDT

.IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG
BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS
UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 26, 10:05 AM CDT, 4 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 10:05 AM CDT, 4 hours 26 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
1005 AM CDT FRI MAY 26 2000

WILL BE UPDATING WITHIN NEXT HOUR OR SO TO LOWER POPS ACROSS
NORTHERN PORTIONS OF WEST TENNESSEE...AS PRECIP MOVES OUT OF
AREA. WILL HAVE ALL AREAS 20 POPS FOR THIS AFTERNOON...AS ENTIRE
AREA WILL BE IN WARM SECTOR. MORE AIRMASS THAN ANYTHING ELSE...AS
NO SIGNIFICANT TRIGGER AVAILABLE. BETTER SHOT TOMORROW WITH NEXT
SHORTWAVE.

TEMPS LOOK REASONABLE. 10

.MEM...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 26, 2:21 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TENNESSEE
221 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 2000

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1245 PM    3 E CARDWELL              MO   WIND DAMAGE
05/27/00   DUNKLIN                        NUMEROUS TREES BLOWN DOWN.

1247 PM    LEACHVILLE                AR   TORNADO
05/27/00   MISSISSIPPI                    *** 1 INJ ***
                                          DAMAGE TO STRUCTURES WITH
                                          ONE MINOR INJURY. REPORT
                                          RELAYED BY JONESBORO STATE
                                          POLICE.

0107 PM    COOTER                    MO   WIND DAMAGE
05/27/00   PEMISCOT                       NUMEROUS TREES BLOWN DOWN.
                                          REPORTED BY STEELE PD.

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 2:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Cross, St. Francis	36 min
May 26, 3:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Cross, Poinsett	38 min
May 26, 3:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crittenden, Mississippi	28 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 2000 Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.