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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 139, NWS Memphis, TN

May 28, 1995Lafayette County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1995, 6:20 PM CDT for Lafayette County, Mississippi. It was in force for 25 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 28, 1995, 6:20 PM CDT (23:20 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 1995, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Lafayette County, MS

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 233 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 1995-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1823 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 1995-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 94 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1823 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
645 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
118 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.6
Supercell composite
3.8

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 4:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLafayette49 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.