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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Memphis, TN

May 14, 1995Weakley County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1995, 5:26 PM CDT for Weakley County, Tennessee. It was in force for 34 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 14, 1995, 5:26 PM CDT (22:26 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 1995, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Weakley County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 191 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 33 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -332 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 696 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 181 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMEM 142226
SVRMEM
TNC183-142300-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
526 PM CDT SUN MAY 14 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM CDT
FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN WEST TENNESSEE
 
   ...WEAKLEY COUNTY
 
AT 526 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST WEST OF
DRESDEN. MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR...THIS STORM WILL BRING LARGE
HAIL TO DRESDEN BEFORE 600 PM.
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 14, 2:29 PM CDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before

TNZ012>018-035>047-067>074-083>087-099>102-142030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
227 PM CDT (327 PM EDT) SUN MAY 14 1995

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED FOR TENNESSEE...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 383...WHICH HAD BEEN IN EFFECT FOR
PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE...HAS BEEN CANCELLED AND IS NO LONGER
IN EFFECT.

THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED FOR NOW AS THUNDERSTORMS HAVE
MOVED OUT OF THE AREA. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP LATER THIS
EVENING.

STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 14, 2:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Weakley	22 min
May 14, 6:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	McNairy	54 min
May 14, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Henry	43 min

Nearby

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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.