Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 215, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1995, 12:54 AM CDT for Poinsett County, Arkansas. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 1995, 12:54 AM CDT (05:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 1995, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Poinsett County, AR
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 1455 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1010 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 221 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.5
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, 8:12 PM CDT, 4 hours 42 minutes before
TNZ001>102-050215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 811 PM CDT (911 PM EDT) TUE JUL 4 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 709 CANCELLED FOR PARTS OF WEST AND MIDDLE TENNESSEE... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS CANCELLED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 709 FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TENNESSEE... BENTON...CARROLL...CHEATHAM...DAVIDSON..DECATUR...DICKSON...GILES... HARDIN...HENDERSON...HENRY...HICKMAN...HOUSTON...HUMPHREYS...LAWRENCE ...LEWIS...LINCOLN...MARSHALL...MAURY...MONTGOMERY...PERRY... ROBERTSON...STEWART...WAYNE...WEAKLEY...WILLIAMSON... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE NOW MOVE NORTH AND EAST OF THE COUNTIES AND THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED. WATCH 709 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE REST OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT. RES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 2:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Shelby, Tipton | 55 min |
| Jul 5, 2:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Dyer, Lauderdale | 55 min |
| Jul 5, 12:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Craighead | 55 min |
| Jul 5, 1:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Cross | 69 min |
| Jul 5, 1:17 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Greene | 43 min |
| Jul 5, 1:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Mississippi | 68 min |
| Jul 5, 1:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crittenden, St. Francis | 56 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 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.