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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 224, NWS Memphis, TN

July 8, 1995Greene County, Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1995, 10:52 PM CDT for Greene County, Arkansas. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 8, 1995, 10:52 PM CDT (03:52 UTC)
Expired
Jul 8, 1995, 11:45 PM CDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Greene County, AR

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 302 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, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 1995-07-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 633 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, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 1995-07-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 148 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
633 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-278 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2086 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
148 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
197 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.2

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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 9, 12:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGDeSoto39 min
Jul 9, 1:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMarshall40 min
Jul 9, 3:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGTippah37 min
Jul 9, 4:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLee26 min
Jul 9, 5:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGDeSoto, Marshall52 min
Jul 9, 5:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLee47 min
Jul 9, 5:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMonroe44 min
Jul 9, 6:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLowndes39 min
Jul 8, 11:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGTipton39 min
Jul 9, 12:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGShelby49 min
Jul 9, 6:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGHardeman30 min
Jul 8, 10:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGClay28 min
Jul 8, 11:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMississippi32 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.