Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1995, 7:02 PM CDT for Dyer County, Gibson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 1995, 7:02 PM CDT (00:02 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 1995, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Dyer County, TN, Gibson County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 151 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 3293 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1194 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMEM 150005 SVRMEM TNC045-053-150045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 702 PM CDT SUN MAY 14 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S... IN WEST TENNESSEE ...EASTERN DYER COUNTY...WESTERN GIBSON COUNTY AT 702 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EASTERN DYER COUNTY NEAR ROELLEN. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN GIBSON COUNTY AND PASS SOUTH OF RUTHERFORD BY 725 PM. LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. 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, 4 hours 33 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, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lake | 50 min |
| May 14, 10:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lake | 54 min |
| May 14, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Weakley | 30 min |
| May 14, 11:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Henry, Weakley | 42 min |
| May 15, 12:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Benton | 41 min |
| May 15, 1:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lauderdale | 28 min |
| May 15, 9:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Shelby | 51 min |
| May 15, 9:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Shelby | 17 min |
| May 15, 10:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Shelby | 39 min |
| May 15, 10:43 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Shelby | 32 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.