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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Memphis, TN

May 14, 1995Poinsett County, Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1995, 1:44 AM CDT for Poinsett County, Arkansas. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 14, 1995, 1:44 AM CDT (06:44 UTC)
Expired
May 14, 1995, 2:30 AM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Poinsett County, AR

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:48 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, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 105 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 140646
SVRMEM
ARC111-140730-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
144 AM CDT SUN MAY 14 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  230 AM CDT
FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN EAST ARKANSAS
 
   ...POINSETT COUNTY
 
AT 136 AM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTHWEST OF
HARRISBURG MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL PASS
THROUGH THE TOWNS OF HARRISBURG AND TRUMANN BETWEEN NOW AND 200 AM.
 
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY 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, 12:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGClay, Greene29 min
May 14, 4:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLawrence35 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 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.