Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Feb 24, 2001, 6:26 PM CST for Cross County, Poinsett County, Arkansas. It was in force for 34 min. 1 report 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, 6:26 PM CST (00:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2001, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Cross County, AR, Poinsett County, AR
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 6:35 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Hickory Ridge, AR | Some power lines 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 3:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 999 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 634 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 420 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 489 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.2
- Supercell composite
- 13.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
183 WFUS54 KMEG 250027 TORMEM ARC037-111-250100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 626 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWEST CROSS COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS POINSETT COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS * UNTIL 700 PM CST * AT 622 PM CST...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HICKORY RIDGE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 65 MPH. * CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO THROUGH 700 PM CST INCLUDE... HICKORY RIDGE... FISHER... HARRISBURG... GREENFIELD... TRUMANN... .IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. PROTECT YOUR BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS. .STAY TUNED TO THIS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROADCAST FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND INFORMATION. LAT...LON 3531 9119 3520 9103 3572 9046 3572 9074
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 6:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crittenden, Cross, Mississippi, Poinsett | 61 min |
| Feb 24, 7:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Clay, Craighead, Greene | 53 min |
| Feb 24, 7:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee, St. Francis | 51 min |
| Feb 24, 7:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Craighead, Greene | 29 min |
| Feb 24, 7:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crittenden, Mississippi | 31 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.