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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 299, NWS Memphis, TN

October 27, 1995Tate County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 27, 1995, 3:54 AM CDT for Tate County, Mississippi. It was in force for 51 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 27, 1995, 3:54 AM CDT (08:54 UTC)
Expired: Oct 27, 1995, 4:45 AM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Tate County, MS

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 20 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1516 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 653 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 310 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 465 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.8
Supercell composite: 13.2

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, Oct 27, 3:13 AM CDT, 41 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 27, 3:20 AM CDT, 34 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 27, 1:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tippah	42 min
Oct 26, 10:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Shelby	46 min
Oct 26, 11:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tipton	44 min
Oct 26, 11:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Shelby	51 min
Oct 26, 11:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Gibson	50 min
Oct 26, 11:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Fayette	47 min
Oct 27, 12:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Weakley	40 min
Oct 27, 12:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Henry	43 min
Oct 26, 9:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Greene	54 min
Oct 26, 10:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	St. Francis	48 min
Oct 26, 10:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crittenden	53 min
Oct 26, 10:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lawrence	42 min
Oct 26, 11:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Greene, Lawrence	52 min
Oct 26, 11:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Greene	50 min
Oct 27, 1:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead	43 min
Oct 27, 3:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Mississippi, Poinsett	47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1995 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.