Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 10, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Feb 18, 2000, 2:55 PM CST for St. Francis County, Arkansas. It was in force for 20 min. 2 reports 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
- Feb 18, 2000, 2:55 PM CST (20:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 18, 2000, 3:15 PM CST
- In force
- 20 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County St. Francis County, AR
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:58 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 3:00 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Hughes, AR | |
| Feb 18, 3:00 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Hughes, AR | A mobile home was overturned. Several homes were damaged. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 11:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Feb 18, 2:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 76 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
- 84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -282 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 693 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 519 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 495 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMEM 182054 TORMEM ARC123-182130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 255 PM CST FRI FEB 18 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN ST. FRANCIS COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN ARKANSAS * UNTIL 315 PM CST * AT 253 PM CST... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HUGHES... MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... HUGHES AROUND 305& PM. .A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 1:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Poinsett | 33 min |
| Feb 18, 1:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lee, St. Francis | 61 min |
| Feb 18, 3:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crittenden | 29 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.