Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Feb 24, 2001, 7:16 PM CST for Craighead County, Greene County, Arkansas. It was in force for 29 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, 7:16 PM CST (01:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2001, 7:45 PM CST
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Craighead County, AR, Greene County, AR
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 7:20 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake City, AR | Some warehouses were damaged. Many trees and 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, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 129 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.
000 WFUS54 KMEG 250118 TORMEM ARC031-055-250145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 716 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CRAIGHEAD COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS GREENE COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS * UNTIL 745 PM CST * AT 713 PM CST...A TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTH OF BROOKLAND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED MOVE THROUGH... GOOBERTOWN PARAGOULD .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 3583 9074 3571 9058 3595 9024 3611 9043
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 6:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Cross, Poinsett | 34 min |
| 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, 7:59 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.