Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Apr 24, 2003, 8:17 PM CDT for Randolph County, Arkansas. It was in force for 43 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
- Apr 24, 2003, 8:17 PM CDT (01:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 2003, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Randolph 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 6:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 2140 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1398 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 213 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 10.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
847 WFUS54 KMEG 250117 TORMEM ARC121-250200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 817 PM CDT THU APR 24 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... RANDOLPH COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS * UNTIL 900 PM CDT. * AT 813 PM CDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 11 MILES WEST OF RAVENDEN SPRINGS...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO THROUGH 900 PM CDT INCLUDE... RAVENDEN SPRINGS... DALTON... ATTICA... MAYNARD...BIGGERS... .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 3640 9152 3622 9148 3628 9079 3652 9084
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Craighead | 52 min |
| Apr 24, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Poinsett | 48 min |
| Apr 24, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lawrence, Randolph | 36 min |
| Apr 24, 8:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Randolph | 49 min |
| Apr 24, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Phillips | 38 min |
| Apr 24, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Craighead | 44 min |
| Apr 24, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Clay | 44 min |
| Apr 24, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Phillips | 39 min |
| Apr 24, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Craighead | 49 min |
| Apr 24, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Clay | 46 min |
| Apr 24, 11:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Craighead | 44 min |
| Apr 24, 11:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Greene | 51 min |
| Apr 24, 11:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Craighead, Greene | 2 hr |
| Apr 25, 12:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Mississippi | 24 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.