Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 19, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at May 4, 2003, 9:18 PM CDT for Cross County, Arkansas. It was in force for 42 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 4, 2003, 9:18 PM CDT (02:18 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 2003, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Cross County, AR
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 6:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 2245 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 658 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 254 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 313 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 4.4
- Supercell composite
- 14.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
421 WFUS54 KMEG 050218 TORMEM ARC037-050300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 917 PM CDT SUN MAY 4 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CROSS COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS * UNTIL 1000 PM CDT. * AT 914 PM CDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 9 MILES SOUTH OF HICKORY RIDGE...MOVING EAST AT 65 MPH. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF DAMAGE AS IT MOVED ACROSS CENTRAL ARKANSAS. * CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO THROUGH 1000 PM CDT INCLUDE... HICKORY RIDGE... VANNDALE...WYNNE... CHERRY VALLEY... .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. LAT...LON 3541 9105 3515 9103 3525 9053 3545 9054
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 7:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Mississippi | 51 min |
| May 4, 7:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Poinsett | 48 min |
| May 4, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Craighead | 36 min |
| May 4, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Randolph | 36 min |
| May 4, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Greene | 35 min |
| May 4, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Craighead | 47 min |
| May 4, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Mississippi | 25 min |
| May 4, 9:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Mississippi | 46 min |
| May 4, 9:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Crittenden | 52 min |
| May 5, 2:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee, St. Francis | 53 min |
| May 5, 3:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crittenden | 52 min |
| May 5, 4:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lawrence | 28 min |
| May 5, 6:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee | 29 min |
| May 5, 6:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crittenden | 28 min |
| May 5, 1:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crittenden | 45 min |
| May 5, 3:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Mississippi | 43 min |
| May 5, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Greene | 47 min |
| May 5, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Craighead | 23 min |
| May 5, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Mississippi | 30 min |
| May 5, 5:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Mississippi | 26 min |
| May 5, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Greene | 52 min |
| May 5, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Phillips | 49 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.