Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 1995, 2:34 PM CDT for Decatur County, Henderson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 26 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 18, 1995, 2:34 PM CDT (19:34 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 1995, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Decatur County, TN, Henderson County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:35 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 2:55 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Lexington, TN | A tornado briefly touched down near Lexington knocking over a few trees. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 1151 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 674 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 189 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 4.9
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 2:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lafayette | 53 min |
| May 18, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Union | 25 min |
| May 18, 3:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tippah | 48 min |
| May 18, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Prentiss | 52 min |
| May 18, 4:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Yalobusha | 38 min |
| May 18, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lafayette | 34 min |
| May 18, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Pontotoc | 30 min |
| May 18, 5:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lee, Pontotoc | 32 min |
| May 18, 5:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Itawamba | 35 min |
| May 18, 2:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Shelby | 41 min |
| May 18, 3:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crockett, Gibson | 28 min |
| May 18, 3:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Haywood | 28 min |
| May 18, 3:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette | 47 min |
| May 18, 9:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Carroll, Madison | 49 min |
| May 18, 9:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Dyer, Lauderdale | 52 min |
| May 18, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette, Hardeman | 30 min |
| May 18, 1:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Hardeman | 35 min |
| May 18, 1:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Fayette | 30 min |
| May 18, 1:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lake | 40 min |
| May 18, 1:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Chester, McNairy | 34 min |
| May 18, 2:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lake, Obion | 26 min |
| May 18, 2:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Chester, Hardin, McNairy | 31 min |
| May 18, 2:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Decatur, Hardin | 29 min |
| May 18, 2:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Obion | 31 min |
| May 18, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Weakley | 39 min |
| May 18, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardin, McNairy | 43 min |
| May 18, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Henry | 41 min |
| May 18, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Benton | 32 min |
| May 17, 11:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Randolph | 40 min |
| May 18, 12:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Clay | 33 min |
| May 18, 12:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Clay | 49 min |
| May 18, 12:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Clay | 37 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.