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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 237, NWS Memphis, TN

July 9, 1995Lowndes County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 1995, 6:36 PM CDT for Lowndes County, Mississippi. It was in force for 39 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 9, 1995, 6:36 PM CDT (23:36 UTC)
Expired
Jul 9, 1995, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Lowndes County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 158 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 1995-07-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 278 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 1995-07-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 1 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
278 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-127 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1071 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-37 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
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 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, 10:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGGreene53 min
Jul 8, 11:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMississippi32 min

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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.