Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 190, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2000, 9:56 PM CDT for Clay County, Arkansas. It was in force for 49 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
- Aug 3, 2000, 9:56 PM CDT (02:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2000, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clay County, AR
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:57 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 10:15 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Corning, AR |
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 nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 706 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2034 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KMEG 040257 SVRMEM ARC021-040345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 956 PM CDT THU AUG 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CLAY COUNTY IN NORTHEAST ARKANSAS * UNTIL 1045 PM CDT * AT 955 PM CDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF SUCCESS...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SUCCESS AROUND 1000 PM CDT CORNING AROUND 1015 PM CDT HICKORIA AROUND 1035 PM CDT KNOBEL...PEACH ORCHARD AROUND 1040 PM CDT .IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMA,GING 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 Aug 3, 9:15 PM CDT, 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 9:15 PM CDT, 41 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 915 PM CDT THU AUG 3 2000 CURRENT RADAR INDICATES STRONG STORMS OVER SE MO AND ISOLATED STORMS IN NE AR. PLAN TO UPDATE ZONES TO INCREASE POPS IN NE AR. PLAN TO FRESHEN WORDING IN OTHER ZONES. .MEM...NONE. 012 N
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 2:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crittenden | 47 min |
| Aug 4, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Craighead, Poinsett | 23 min |
| Aug 4, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Poinsett | 46 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.