Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 18, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Apr 23, 2000, 4:27 PM CDT for Little River County, Sevier County, Arkansas. It was in force for 63 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
- Apr 23, 2000, 4:27 PM CDT (21:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 2000, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Little River County, AR, Sevier County, AR
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:26 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 1:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 721 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 271 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 416 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
172 WFUS54 KSHV 232128 TORSHV ARC081-133-232230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 427 PM CDT SUN APR 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LITTLE RIVER COUNTY IN ARKANSAS SOUTHERN SEVIER COUNTY IN ARKANSAS * UNTIL 530 PM CDT * AT 427 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER HORATIO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25MPH. REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING FOR... LITTLE RIVER COUNTY IN ARKANSAS SOUTHERN SEVIER COUNTY IN ARKANSAS UNTIL 530 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3406 9434 3373 9445 3359 9405 3379 9398
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Sevier | 65 min |
| Apr 23, 3:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Sevier | 65 min |
| Apr 23, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Howard | 59 min |
| Apr 23, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Howard | 62 min |
| Apr 23, 5:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Miller | 25 min |
| Apr 23, 5:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Lafayette | 54 min |
| Apr 23, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia | 57 min |
| Apr 23, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Miller | 34 min |
| Apr 23, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Lafayette | 47 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.