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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 131, NWS Memphis, TN

May 26, 2000Crittenden County, Mississippi County, Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2000, 3:47 PM CDT for Crittenden County, Mississippi County, Arkansas. It was in force for 28 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 2000, 3:47 PM CDT (20:47 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2000, 4:15 PM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Crittenden County, AR, Mississippi County, AR

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:51 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 100 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.

244 
WUUS54 KMEG 262047
SVRMEM
ARC035-093-262115-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CRITTENDEN COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS
  MISSISSIPPI COUNTY IN NORTHEAST ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 415 PM CDT

* AT 346 PM CDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG
  A LINE EXTENDING FROM 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GOSNELL TO 3 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF DYESS TO EARLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  DELL AROUND 405 PM CDT
  DYESS AROUND 410 PM CDT
  BLYTHEVILLE...GILMORE AROUND 415 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.

LAT...LON 3594 9003 3557 9032 3513 9058 3539 9027
          3583 9000 3620 8970

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, 2:55 PM CDT, 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 2:55 PM CDT, 52 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
255 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 2000

SEVERE TSTM WATCH 363 UP UNTIL 01Z...BUT MAY BE ABLE TO CLEAR A
FEW COUNTIES WITH THE 4 PM ISSUANCE. SHOULD PRETTY MUCH BE A ONE
SHOT DEAL FOR MOST AREAS. LAST MINUTE DETERMINATION OF FIRST
PERIOD POPS AND LOWS WILL BE BASED ON RADAR AND SURFACE OBS.
OUTSIDE OF WATCH AREA WILL HAVE LITTLE OR NO POPS FOR FIRST
PERIOD. NEXT CHANCE WILL BE WITH MAIN VORT LATE SATURDAY
AFTERNOON AND EVENING. STILL SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL FOR THIS
ONE...WILL CARRY CHANCE POPS FOR LATE AFTERNOON ON SATURDAY...BUT
EXPECT MAIN SHOT 03Z-09Z AND WILL GO 50-60 POPS FOR THIRD PERIOD.
MAY BE A FEW CELLS LEFT OVER ACROSS NE MS EARLY SUNDAY MORNING...
BUT SKIES SHOULD BE CLEARING ELSEWHERE. REMAINDER OF FORECAST WILL
BE DRY.

TEMPS...FIRST PERIOD WILL GO ABOVE GUIDANCE IN AREAS UNAFFECTED
BY RAIN. WILL TRY TO FINESSE IN RAINY AREAS...AS THERE MAY BE
SOME RECOVERY BEFORE SUNSET...BUT CANT SEE THINGS FALLING BELOW
LOWER 70S. ON SATURDAY...SHOULD BE ENOUGH SUNSHINE TO REACH
GUIDANCE TEMPS. SATURDAY NIGHT...GUIDANCE LOOKS GOOD. SUNDAY...
CANNOT SEE WHY SUCH A LARGE DISCREPANCY ACROSS AREA...FWC HAS
MEM 84...MKL 86...JBR 89. WILL TREND UP AT MEM...AND DOWN A
LITTLE AT JBR. NCEP EXTENDED GUIDANCE ACCEPTED. 10

.MEM...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 26, 2:21 PM CDT, 1 hour 26 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.

NNNN

Local storm report, May 26, 2:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

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

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

0230 PM    PARIS                     TN   WIND DAMAGE
05/27/00   HENRY                          NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER
                                          LINES DOWN. REPORTED BY
                                          HENRY COUNTY SO.

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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, 2:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead	29 min
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

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.