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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Memphis, TN

March 20, 1995Alcorn County, Prentiss County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 20, 1995, 6:43 PM CST for Alcorn County, Prentiss County, Mississippi. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 20, 1995, 6:43 PM CST (00:43 UTC)
Expired
Mar 20, 1995, 7:45 PM CST
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Alcorn County, MS, Prentiss County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 128 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 1995-03-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 7 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 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 1995-03-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 48 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
7 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2178 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-17 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 20, 6:00 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGDeSoto45 min
Mar 20, 6:03 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGBenton27 min
Mar 20, 6:09 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGTippah66 min
Mar 20, 6:19 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGAlcorn41 min
Mar 20, 6:21 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMarshall54 min
Mar 20, 6:35 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGBenton25 min
Mar 20, 7:15 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGUnion60 min
Mar 20, 7:26 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGTishomingo49 min
Mar 20, 7:53 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGLee52 min
Mar 20, 8:09 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLee34 min
Mar 20, 8:21 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGItawamba54 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.