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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Memphis, TN

May 9, 2000Dunklin County, Missouri

NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at May 9, 2000, 4:29 PM CDT for Dunklin County, Missouri. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued
May 9, 2000, 4:29 PM CDT (21:29 UTC)
Expired
May 9, 2000, 5:00 PM CDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Dunklin County, MO

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:29 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 nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 151 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 2000-05-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 122 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2000-05-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 26 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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 092131
TORMEM
MOC069-092200-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  DUNKLIN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 500 PM CDT

* AT 423 PM CDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5
  MILES SOUTH OF RECTOR...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO THROUGH 500 PM CDT INCLUDE...   
  CARDWELL...SENATH AND KENNETT

.IF YOU ARE 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 3622 9026 3604 9034 3606 8997 3635 8997

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.