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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at May 4, 2003, 9:29 PM CDT for Mississippi County, Arkansas. It was in force for 46 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, 9:29 PM CDT (02:29 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 2003, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Mississippi 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, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 117 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.
000 WFUS54 KMEG 050229 TORMEM ARC093-050315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 929 PM CDT SUN MAY 4 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MISSISSIPPI COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS * UNTIL 1015 PM CDT. * AT 924 PM CDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTH OF MANILA...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO THROUGH 1015 PM CDT INCLUDE... VICTORIA... DELL... BURDETTE...GOSNELL... BLYTHEVILLE... .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 3597 9024 3570 9021 3577 8983 3600 8980
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, 9:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Cross | 42 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.