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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Memphis, TN

May 14, 1995Dunklin County, Missouri

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1995, 12:45 AM CDT for Dunklin County, Missouri. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 14, 1995, 12:45 AM CDT (05:45 UTC)
Expired
May 14, 1995, 1:30 AM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Dunklin County, MO

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 143 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 1995-05-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4682 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 1995-05-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 152 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
4682 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1027 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
152 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
144 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.8
Supercell composite
14.6

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMEM 140547
SVRMEM
MOC069-140630-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
1245 AM CDT SUN MAY 14 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  130 AM CDT
FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI
 
   ...DUNKLIN COUNTY
 
AT 1244 AM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR RECTOR
ARKANSAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORMS HAS PRODUCED QUARTER SIZE
HAIL IN RECTOR. THIS STORM WILL PASS THROUGH THE KENNETT AREA BETWEEN
100 AM AND 115 AM CDT.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIOVNALLY DO PRODUCE 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
May 14, 1:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGDunklin, Pemiscot42 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.