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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 310, NWS Memphis, TN

November 11, 1995Union County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 11, 1995, 2:35 AM CST for Union County, Mississippi. It was in force for 25 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 11, 1995, 2:35 AM CST (08:35 UTC)
Expired
Nov 11, 1995, 3:00 AM CST
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Union County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 94 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, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 1995-11-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 755 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, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 1995-11-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 409 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
755 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
549 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
409 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
509 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
7.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMEM 110835 RRA
SVRMEM
MSC145-110900-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
235 AM CST SAT NOV 11 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  300 AM CST
FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...UNION COUNTY
 
AT 233 AM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH ACROSS UNION COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL
MOVE THROUGH THE NEW ALBANY AREA BY 245 AM.
 
DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO P\RODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 11, 2:56 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGTippah34 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.