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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Memphis, TN

January 2, 2000Craighead County, Poinsett County, Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 2, 2000, 5:41 PM CST for Craighead County, Poinsett County, Arkansas. It was in force for 44 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
Jan 2, 2000, 5:41 PM CST (23:41 UTC)
Expired
Jan 2, 2000, 6:25 PM CST
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Craighead County, AR, Poinsett County, AR

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:41 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 nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 116 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2000-01-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2000-01-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 309 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
684 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
309 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
304 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMEM 022340
SVRMEM
ARC031-111-030025-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
541 PM CST SUN JAN 2 2000


THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN AND EASTERN CRAIGHEAD COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN ARKANSAS
  CENTRAL AND NORTHEASTERN POINSETT COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 625 PM CST

* AT 537 PM CST... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
  WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 5 MILES NORTH OF HARRISBURG...
  MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BAY AND HARRISBURG BY 545 PM CST
  TRUMANN BY 550 PM CST
  LAKE CITY BY 555 PM CST
  LEPANTO BY 555 PM CST
  CARAWAY BY 600 PM CST
  MONETTE BY 605 PM CST

.WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 2, 5:22 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGPoinsett43 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.