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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS Memphis, TN

May 14, 1995Henry County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1995, 5:47 PM CDT for Henry County, Tennessee. It was in force for 43 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 14, 1995, 5:47 PM CDT (22:47 UTC)
Expired
May 14, 1995, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Henry County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 154 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1995-05-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 33 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1995-05-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 102 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
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

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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, 3 hours 18 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PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE...HAS BEEN CANCELLED AND IS NO LONGER
IN EFFECT.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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 14, 2:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGWeakley22 min
May 14, 6:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMcNairy54 min
May 14, 5:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGWeakley34 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

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 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.