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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Memphis, TN

June 26, 1994Gibson County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Jun 26, 1994, 4:18 PM CDT for Gibson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 27 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 26, 1994, 4:18 PM CDT (21:18 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 1994, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Gibson County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 121 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: 7 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 830 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 381 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 340 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.7

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMEM 262119
TORMEM
TNC053-262145-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
418 PM CDT SUN JUN 26 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  445 PM CDT
FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN WEST TENNESSEE
 
   ...GIBSON COUNTY
 
AT 417 PM PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO ASSOCIATED WITH AN INTENSE
THUNDERSTORM LOCATED OVER THE NORTH PART OF GIBSON COUNTY. MOVING
SOUTHEAST THIS STORM WILL TRACK NEAR THE WEAKLEY...GIBSON COUNTY BORDER.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 26, 7:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tipton	51 min
Jun 26, 8:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Fayette, Shelby	44 min
Jun 26, 9:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Fayette	42 min
Jun 26, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Obion, Weakley	50 min
Jun 26, 3:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Weakley	25 min
Jun 26, 3:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Obion	35 min
Jun 26, 4:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Gibson, Obion	32 min
Jun 26, 4:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Gibson	35 min
Jun 26, 5:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Gibson	66 min
Jun 26, 5:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lauderdale	38 min
Jun 26, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Carroll	44 min
Jun 26, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Haywood	52 min
Jun 26, 6:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Haywood, Tipton	28 min
Jun 26, 6:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Haywood	32 min
Jun 26, 6:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chester, Madison	41 min
Jun 26, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Henderson	50 min
Jun 26, 6:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Fayette, Hardeman	68 min

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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.