Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Feb 24, 2001, 5:29 PM CST for Craighead County, Poinsett County, Arkansas. It was in force for 31 min. 2 reports came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 24, 2001, 5:29 PM CST (23:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2001, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Craighead County, AR, Poinsett County, AR
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 5:34 PM CST | Tornado F2 | Amagon, AR | A strong tornado was spawned in eastern Jackson County about 1.6 miles east of Amagon. The tornado moved quickly northeast, and heavily damaged a mobile home. The tornado downed a tree onto another mobile home, and damaged or destroyed several sheds, carports |
| Feb 24, 5:41 PM CST | Tornado F2 | Uno, AR | The tornado moved into Poinsett county from Jackson county and continued to move northeast.One mobile home was demolished. Four other mobile homes were overturned. A few houses were damaged. One shed was blown over. A few trees 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 3:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 485 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 456 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 552 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMEG 242330 TORMEM ARC031-111-250000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 529 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CRAIGHEAD COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS POINSETT COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS * UNTIL 600 PM CST * AT 524 PM CST...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WALDENBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO THROUGH 600 PM CST INCLUDE... WALDENBURG... WEINER... CASH... .IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. PROTECT YOUR BODY FROM3 FLYING DEBRIS. .STAY TUNED TO THIS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROADCAST FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND INFORMATION. .A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT. LAT...LON 3549 9135 3536 9120 3567 9073 3584 9092
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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.