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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS Memphis, TN

June 29, 1995Tunica County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1995, 12:35 PM CDT for Tunica County, Mississippi. It was in force for 25 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 29, 1995, 12:35 PM CDT (17:35 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 1995, 1:00 PM CDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Tunica County, MS

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:34 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 nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 261 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 1995-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 551 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 1995-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 10 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
551 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-84 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
859 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
12 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMEM 291739 RRA
SVRMEM
MSC143-291800-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
1235 PM CDT THU JUN 29 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  100 PM CDT
FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...NORTHERN TUNICA COUNTY
 
AT 1232 PM..DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG HIGHWAY
61 ABOUT 3 MILES EAST OF ROBINSONVILLE. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT
ONLY 5 MPH AND WILL BRING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL
RAINS TO THE NORTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY.
 
 
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BU<ILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 29, 1:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGTunica37 min
Jun 29, 1:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGTunica15 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.