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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 81, NWS Memphis, TN

May 14, 1995McNairy County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1995, 6:21 AM CDT for McNairy County, Tennessee. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 14, 1995, 6:21 AM CDT (11:21 UTC)
Expired
May 14, 1995, 7:15 AM CDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County McNairy County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 132 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 office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 14, 2:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGWeakley22 min
May 14, 5:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGWeakley34 min
May 14, 5:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGHenry43 min
May 14, 12:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGClay, Greene29 min
May 14, 1:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGPoinsett46 min
May 14, 4:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLawrence35 min

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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.