Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Mar 26, 2000, 10:01 PM CST for Hempstead County, Lafayette County, Arkansas. It was in force for 34 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
- Mar 26, 2000, 10:01 PM CST (04:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2000, 10:35 PM CST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hempstead County, AR, Lafayette County, AR
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:03 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 10:15 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Patmos, AR | Several large trees down. |
| Mar 26, 10:25 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Stamps, AR |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 7:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 288 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1675 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 4.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KSHV 270401 TORSHV ARC057-073-270435- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1001 PM CST SUN MAR 26 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HEMPSTEAD COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN ARKANSAS LAFAYETTE COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN ARKANSAS * UNTIL 1035 PM CST * AT AT 1000 PM CST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 5 SOUTH OF HOPE... MOVING SOUTH AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... PATMOS BY 1015 PM CST
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 9:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Nevada | 43 min |
| Mar 26, 10:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Miller | 67 min |
| Mar 26, 10:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia, Lafayette | 41 min |
| Mar 26, 10:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Union | 36 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.