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Tornado Warning 45, NWS Memphis, TN

November 15, 2005Phillips County, Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Nov 15, 2005, 3:09 PM CST for Phillips County, Arkansas. It was in force for 36 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: Nov 15, 2005, 3:09 PM CST (21:09 UTC)
Expired: Nov 15, 2005, 3:45 PM CST
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Phillips County, AR

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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 15, 7:42 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 95 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 699 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 594 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 313 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 346 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 4.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS54 KMEG 152109
TORMEG
ARC107-152145-
/O.NEW.KMEG.TO.W.0045.051115T2109Z-051115T2145Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
309 PM CST TUE NOV 15 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  PHILLIPS COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 345 PM CST

* AT 309 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 16 MILES WEST OF ELAINE...OR ABOUT 12 MILES EAST OF DE
  WITT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 70 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO WATKINS
  CORNER...LAKE VIEW...WEST HELENA AND HELENA.

.THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. THIS
STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG TO VIOLENT TORNADOES. IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY

.STAY TUNED TO THIS BROADCAST FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND INFORMATION.
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY...CALL 1 800 4 3 2 0 8 7 5.

LAT...LON 3449 9100 3415 9106 3420 9086 3445 9059
      3461 9057

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KMEG 152123
SVSMEG

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
323 PM CST TUE NOV 15 2005

ARC107-152145-
/O.CON.KMEG.TO.W.0045.000000T0000Z-051115T2145Z/
PHILLIPS AR-
323 PM CST TUE NOV 15 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 345 PM CST FOR PHILLIPS
COUNTY...

AT 323 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO IS NOW LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTH OF
WATKINS CORNER...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF ELAINE...MOVING EAST
AT 45 MPH.

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO LAKE
VIEW...WEST HELENA AND HELENA.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST
DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 3449 9100 3415 9106 3420 9086 3445 9059
      3461 9057

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 15, 5:00 AM CST	Wind Advisory	MEG	Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Lawrence and 6 more	13 hr
Nov 15, 11:38 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crittenden	27 min
Nov 15, 11:46 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Mississippi	29 min
Nov 15, 12:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lawrence	29 min
Nov 15, 12:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crittenden	25 min
Nov 15, 1:10 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Greene	35 min
Nov 15, 1:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead	30 min
Nov 15, 1:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lee	26 min
Nov 15, 1:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead, Poinsett	29 min
Nov 15, 1:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Greene	27 min
Nov 15, 2:05 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lee, St. Francis	25 min
Nov 15, 2:26 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lee	19 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.