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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2000, 12:59 PM CDT for Mississippi County, Arkansas; Pemiscot County, Missouri. It was in force for 31 min. 1 report 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, 12:59 PM CDT (17:59 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2000, 1:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Mississippi County, AR, Pemiscot County, MO
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:59 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, 1:05 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Cooter, MO | Numerous trees were blown 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, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
768 WFUS54 KMEG 271803 TORMEM ARC093-MOC155-271830- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1259 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI COUNTY IN NORTHEAST ARKANSAS SOUTHERN PEMISCOT COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI * UNTIL 130 PM CDT * AT 1258 PM CDT...DOPPLER RAADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR BLYTHEVILLE ...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO THROUGH 130 PM CDT INCLUDE... BLYTHEVILLE... HOLLAND... COOTER... HICKMAN... .A TORNADO HAS BEEN CONFIRMED. DO NOT RUN OUTSIDE TO FIND THE TORNADO...TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING NOW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 12:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Mississippi | 28 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.