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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Memphis, TN

May 27, 2000Dunklin County, Missouri; Mississippi County, Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2000, 12:37 PM CDT for Dunklin County, Missouri; Mississippi County, Arkansas. It was in force for 28 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: May 27, 2000, 12:37 PM CDT (17:37 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2000, 1:05 PM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Mississippi County, AR, Dunklin County, MO

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:39 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 27, 12:45 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Cardwell, MO	Numerous trees were knocked down.
May 27, 12:47 PM CDT	Tornado F1	Carmi, AR	The tornado began near Carmi and moved northeast toward Leachville. A few mobile homes were damaged. Several trees and power lines were knocked down.

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
May 27, 10:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 124 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: 481 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -92 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 787 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 318 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 346 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.5

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The text

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

583 
WFUS54 KMEG 271738
TORMEM
ARC093-MOC069-271800-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
1237 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MISSISSIPPI COUNTY IN NORTHEAST ARKANSAS
  DUNKLIN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 105 PM CDT

* AT 1233 PM CDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR 
  LEACHVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO THROUGH 100 PM CDT INCLUDE...
  MANILA...
  DELL...
  GOSNELL...

.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.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 12:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Pemiscot	31 min
May 27, 12:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lawrence	54 min
May 27, 12:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lawrence	33 min
May 27, 1:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Greene	66 min
May 27, 4:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lawrence	39 min
May 27, 4:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead	40 min
May 27, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Phillips	40 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.