Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Feb 24, 2007, 3:56 PM CST for Phillips County, Arkansas; Coahoma County, Mississippi. It was in force for 15 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
- Feb 24, 2007, 3:56 PM CST (21:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2007, 4:11 PM CST
- In force
- 15 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Phillips County, AR, Coahoma County, MS
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 1:10 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 746 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 555 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 565 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KMEG 242155
TORMEG
ARC107-MSC027-242230-
/O.NEW.KMEG.TO.W.0002.070224T2156Z-070224T2230Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
356 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
PHILLIPS COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS
COAHOMA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI
* UNTIL 430 PM CST
* AT 353 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO NEAR FRIARS POINT...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF
ELAINE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO WEST HELENA
AND HELENA
.IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF
THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE
BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.
.IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
.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 3436 9076 3438 9080 3462 9061 3457 9055
3452 9056 3444 9043 3443 9043 3436 9050
3426 9063
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS54 KMEG 242211
SVSMEG
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
411 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2007
ARC107-MSC027-242221-
/O.CAN.KMEG.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-070224T2230Z/
PHILLIPS AR-COAHOMA MS-
411 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2007
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR COAHOMA AND PHILLIPS COUNTIES IS
CANCELLED...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES THE STORM WHICH
PROMPTED THE TORNADO WARNING IS NO LONGER A SEVERE WEATHER THREAT TO
THE WARNED AREA.
.A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.
LAT...LON 3436 9076 3438 9080 3462 9061 3457 9055
3452 9056 3444 9043 3443 9043 3436 9050
3426 9063
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 3:44 AM CST | Wind Advisory | MEG | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Lawrence and 6 more | 18 hr |
| Feb 24, 3:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Phillips | 57 min |
| Feb 24, 4:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee, Phillips | 28 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Arkansas, 2007Tornado Warnings in Mississippi, 2007Every tornado warning in 2007Tornadoes in 2007
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.