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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 210, NWS Memphis, TN

October 24, 2001Randolph County, Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 24, 2001, 3:18 PM CDT for Randolph County, Arkansas. It was in force for 27 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: Oct 24, 2001, 3:18 PM CDT (20:18 UTC)
Expired: Oct 24, 2001, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Randolph County, AR

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:17 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
Oct 24, 1:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 184 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: 753 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -148 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 825 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 131 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 138 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

005 
WUUS54 KMEG 242019
SVRMEM
ARC121-242045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
318 PM CDT WED OCT 24 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  RANDOLPH COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 345 PM CDT.

* AT 317 PM CDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM      
  OVER POCAHONTAS...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH. DIME SIZE HAIL WAS 
  REPORTED IN POCAHONTAS.

* CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM THROUGH 345 PM CDT INCLUDE...
  BIGGERS...

.IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG
BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.

.A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER...A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE
WARNING. PREPARE TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY.

.STAY TUNED TO THIS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROADCAST FOR THE LATEST
UPDATES AND INFORMATION.

LAT...LON 3635 9103 3617 9103 3617 9081 3634 9075

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Oct 24, 11:52 AM CDT, 3 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 24, 11:52 AM CDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
1152 AM CDT WED OCT 24 2001

A COLD FRONT EXTENDED ACROSS SOUTHERN MISSOURI AND NORTHWEST
ARKANSAS. EXPECT THIS BOUNDARY TO ENTER OUR NW COUNTIES AROUND 21Z.
PLAN ON UPDATING ZONES TO FRESHEN THE WORDING.

.MEG...WIND ADVISORY TODAY WEST TENNESSEE...NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI
..EASTERN ARKANSAS AND THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL.

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 24, 11:45 AM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before

ARZ008-009-017-018-026>028-035-036-048-049-058-MOZ113-115-MSZ001>017-
020>024-TNZ001>004-019>021-048>055-088>092-241900-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
1145 AM CDT WED OCT 24 2001

THIS OUTLOOK COVERS WEST TENNESSEE...NORTH MISSISSIPPI...EAST
ARKANSAS AND THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL.

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE ENTIRE
MID-SOUTH AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

LATE THIS MORNING...A COLD FRONT EXTENDED ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL
MISSOURI THROUGH NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. THUNDERSTORMS WERE BEGINNING TO
DEVELOP ALONG THE FRONT IN SOUTHERN MISSOURI AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS.
THE COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE MID-SOUTH LATER THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING BRINGING THE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE AREA.

DUE TO STRONG WINDS ABOVE THE SURFACE...THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO
BECOME SEVERE...WITH DAMAGING WINDS LIKELY IN SOME AREAS. AN
ISOLATED TORNADO IS ALSO POSSIBLE. THE TIME OF THE GREATEST THREAT
OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE BETWEEN 2 PM AND 5 PM ACROSS NORTHEAST
ARKANSAS AND THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL...BETWEEN 4 AND 7 PM ACROSS WEST
TENNESSEE AND NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI...AND BETWEEN 6 AND 10 PM ACROSS
NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.

STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD BE PREPARED
FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER
DETAILS OR UPDATES ON THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.

FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION...CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT
HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/MEG.

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 24, 2:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Randolph	38 min
Oct 24, 3:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Clay	48 min
Oct 24, 3:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lawrence	45 min
Oct 24, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Greene	50 min
Oct 24, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Clay	49 min
Oct 24, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead, Poinsett	44 min
Oct 24, 4:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Mississippi	43 min
Oct 24, 4:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Cross, St. Francis	42 min
Oct 24, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Poinsett	29 min
Oct 24, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Phillips	47 min
Oct 24, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crittenden	63 min
Oct 24, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	St. Francis	63 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 2001 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.