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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Memphis, TN

January 3, 2000Craighead County, Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Jan 3, 2000, 1:17 PM CST for Craighead County, Arkansas. It was in force for 33 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 3, 2000, 1:17 PM CST (19:17 UTC)
Expired: Jan 3, 2000, 1:50 PM CST
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Craighead County, AR

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Jan 3, 10:00 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 127 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: 486 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 703 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 72 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 371 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 513 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.4
Supercell composite: 7.8

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMEM 031917
TORMEM
ARC031-031950-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
117 PM CST MON JAN 3 2000


THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CRAIGHEAD COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 150 PM CST

* AT 114 PM CST... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AND SPOTTERS REPORTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CONTAINING A POSSIBLE TORNADO 2 MILES EAST OF
  JONESBORO... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 65 MPH.

  SPOTTERS REPORTED DAMAGE TO BUILDINGS JUST WEST OF JONESBORO FROM
  THIS STORM.

* THIS STORM WILL PASS NEAR PHILADELPHIA AND ANTIOCH BY 125 PM CST.

.A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER...
SEVERE THUNDERS:TORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH
LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY
CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.



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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 2, 6:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Mississippi	33 min
Jan 3, 7:16 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lawrence, Randolph	34 min
Jan 3, 8:02 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Clay	33 min
Jan 3, 12:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead, Lawrence	31 min
Jan 3, 12:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Greene	35 min
Jan 3, 12:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Clay	33 min
Jan 3, 1:10 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Greene	35 min
Jan 3, 1:27 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Clay	33 min
Jan 3, 1:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Poinsett	34 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.