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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Memphis, TN

May 9, 2000Greene County, Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at May 9, 2000, 3:46 PM CDT for Greene County, Arkansas. It was in force for 29 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 9, 2000, 3:46 PM CDT (20:46 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 2000, 4:15 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Greene County, AR

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:47 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
May 9, 4:05 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Evening Star, AR	A tornado briefly touched down blowing down some trees.

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 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 159 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: 122 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -548 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1018 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -5 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 
WFUS54 KMEG 092048
TORMEM
ARC055-092115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
346 PM CDT TUE MAY 9 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  GREENE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 415 PM CDT

* AT 341 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST    
  OF EVENING STAR...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. LAW ENFORCEMENT IN        
  LAWRENCE COUNTY RECEIVED AN UNCOMFIRMED REPORT OF A TORNADO NEAR  
  HOXIE IN EASTERN LAWRENCE COUNTY AT 340 PM.

* CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO THROUGH 415 PM CDT INCLUDE...
  BEECH GROVE
  LAFE...OAK GROVE HEIGHTS
  MARMADUKE...PARAGOULD

.IF YOU JARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 3625 9080 3603 9078 3603 9033 3622 9027

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 9, 3:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lawrence	23 min
May 9, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead	35 min
May 9, 4:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Craighead	33 min
May 9, 4:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Clay, Greene	29 min
May 9, 4:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Mississippi	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.