Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 274, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 1995, 12:51 PM CDT for Henderson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 39 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 8, 1995, 12:51 PM CDT (17:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 1995, 1:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Henderson County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 1827 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 553 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 1:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | McNairy | 34 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.