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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 206, NWS Memphis, TN

July 3, 1995Itawamba County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1995, 4:00 PM CDT for Itawamba County, Mississippi. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 3, 1995, 4:00 PM CDT (21:00 UTC)
Expired
Jul 3, 1995, 5:00 PM CDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Itawamba County, MS

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 191 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, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 1995-07-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 780 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, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 1995-07-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
780 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-40 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
978 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.0

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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
Jul 3, 3:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGAlcorn51 min
Jul 3, 6:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLee, Prentiss39 min
Jul 3, 4:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMcNairy48 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.