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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 209, NWS Memphis, TN

July 4, 1995Fayette County, Shelby County, Tipton County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 1995, 4:04 PM CDT for Fayette County, Shelby County, Tipton County, Tennessee. It was in force for 26 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 4, 1995, 4:04 PM CDT (21:04 UTC)
Expired: Jul 4, 1995, 4:30 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Fayette County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Tipton County, TN

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:04 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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 294 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: 1556 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 532 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 133 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 132 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 4, 10:47 AM CDT, 5 hours 17 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 4, 4:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Pontotoc, Union	26 min
Jul 4, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	McNairy	25 min
Jul 4, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Henry, Weakley	31 min
Jul 4, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Obion	31 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 1995 Every 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.