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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 271, NWS Memphis, TN

July 28, 1995Union County, Mississippi

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 1995-07-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 830 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 1995-07-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 38 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 28, 4:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGYalobusha54 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 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.