Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 271, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1995, 3:11 PM CDT for Union County, Mississippi. It was in force for 49 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 28, 1995, 3:11 PM CDT (20:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 1995, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Union County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 252 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
- 830 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 766 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMEM 282013 RRA SVRMEM MSC145-282100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 311 PM CDT FRI JUL 28 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM CDT FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI ...UNION COUNTY AT 310 PM..DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST WEST OF NEALBANY MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE NEAR NEW ALBANY AND PINEDALE BETWEEN 315 AND 345 PM BRINGING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FbOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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 28, 12:52 PM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
TNZ004-022>026-282055- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1252 PM CDT FRI JUL 28 1995 THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE REMOVED FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 874 ...HENRY..BENTON..HOUSTON..HUMPHREYS..DICKSON..AND CHEATHAM... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO AFFECT THESE COUNTIES..BUT THEY ARE NOT EXPECTED TO REACH SEVERE THRESHOLDS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 874 DOES CONTINUE IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA GENERALLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM PARIS..TO 35 MILES NORTHEAST OF JACKSON..WAVERLY..AND ASHLAND CITY WHICH IS WEST OF NASHVILLE.
Special weather statement, Jul 28, 12:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
TNZ004-022>026-282055- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1252 PM CDT FRI JUL 28 1995 THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE REMOVED FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 874 ...HENRY..BENTON..HOUSTON..HUMPHREYS..DICKSON..AND CHEATHAM... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO AFFECT THESE COUNTIES..BUT THEY ARE NOT EXPECTED TO REACH SEVERE THRESHOLDS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 874 DOES CONTINUE IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA GENERALLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM PARIS..TO 35 MILES NORTHEAST OF JACKSON..WAVERLY..AND ASHLAND CITY WHICH IS WEST OF NASHVILLE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Yalobusha | 54 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.