Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 253, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 1995, 4:14 PM CDT for Greene County, Arkansas. It was in force for 46 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 23, 1995, 4:14 PM CDT (21:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 1995, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 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 21:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 4:25 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Paragould, AR | Some houses had their windows blown out of them. A mobile home had its roof blown off, carried across a road and wrapped around a tree. A barn was destroyed. Numerous trees and power lines were blown down. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 2030 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1078 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 7:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Tipton | 29 min |
| Jul 23, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lauderdale, Tipton | 46 min |
| Jul 23, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Shelby | 40 min |
| Jul 22, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Cross | 40 min |
| Jul 22, 8:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Cross | 33 min |
| Jul 22, 8:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Crittenden, Cross | 46 min |
| Jul 23, 3:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Clay | 41 min |
| Jul 23, 4:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lawrence | 53 min |
| Jul 23, 4:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Greene | 28 min |
| Jul 23, 4:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Mississippi | 41 min |
| Jul 23, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Poinsett | 22 min |
| Jul 23, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crittenden | 51 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.