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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Nov 9, 2002, 9:44 PM CST for Crittenden County, Mississippi County, Arkansas. It was in force for 31 min. 3 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
- Nov 9, 2002, 9:44 PM CST (03:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 9, 2002, 10:15 PM CST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Crittenden County, AR, Mississippi County, AR
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 9:50 PM CST | Tornado F2 | Frenchmans Bayou, AR | The tornado moved into Mississippi county from Crittenden county and continued northeast and eventually moved into Tipton county in Tennessee. Some trees were knocked down near the Crittenden county border. |
| Nov 9, 10:00 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Blytheville, AR | |
| Nov 9, 10:05 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Joiner, AR | Numerous trees and power lines were knocked down in the towns of Joiner, Bassett and Wilson. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 6:20 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 76 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
- 1221 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 892 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 349 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 448 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.9
- Supercell composite
- 12.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMEG 100344 TORMEM ARC035-093-100415- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 944 PM CST SAT NOV 9 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN CRITTENDEN COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS * UNTIL 1015 PM CST. * AT 940 PM CST...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 3 MILES WEST OF GILMORE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO THROUGH 1015 PM CST INCLUDE... BIRDSONG...GILMORE... JOINER... .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. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY...CALL 1 800 4 3 2 0 8 7 5.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 6:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Clay, Greene | 36 min |
| Nov 9, 8:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Cross | 26 min |
| Nov 9, 9:09 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Cross | 51 min |
| Nov 9, 9:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Crittenden, Cross | 22 min |
| Nov 9, 10:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Mississippi | 30 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.