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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Memphis, TN

March 20, 1995Shelby County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 20, 1995, 4:42 PM CST for Shelby County, Tennessee. It was in force for 48 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 20, 1995, 4:42 PM CST (22:42 UTC)
Expired
Mar 20, 1995, 5:30 PM CST
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Shelby County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 40 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, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 1995-03-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 1995-03-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 293 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1579 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
293 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
299 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 20, 5:19 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGDeSoto41 min
Mar 20, 5:46 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMarshall29 min
Mar 20, 4:29 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGFayette31 min
Mar 20, 5:26 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGChester34 min
Mar 20, 5:41 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMcNairy49 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.