Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1995, 12:42 AM CDT for Mississippi County, Arkansas. It was in force for 39 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 15, 1995, 12:42 AM CDT (05:42 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 1995, 1:21 AM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mississippi County, AR
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 104 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 150542 SVRMEM ARC093-150630- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1242 AM CDT MON MAY 15 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 130 AM CDT FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN NORTHEAST ARKANSAS ...NORTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI COUNTY AT 1234 AM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER BLYTHEVILLE ARKANSAS IN MISSISSIPPI COUNTY. DIME SIZE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH AND WILL BE EFFECTING BLYTHEVILLE BETWEEN 1245 AM AND 115 AM CDT. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. &
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
Local storm report, May 14, 8:17 PM CDT, 4 hours 25 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
815 PM CDT SUN MAY 14 1995
TIME (CDT) ...CITY LOCATION... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE ...COUNTY LOCATION...
512 PM KENTON .75 INCH HAIL
5/14/95 GIBSON COUNTY TN REPORTED BY SPOTTER
535 PM DRESDEN 1.00 INCH HAIL
5/14/95 WEAKLEY COUNTY TN REPORTED BY WEAKLEY CTY.
RESCUE.
605 PM PARIS .75 INCH HAIL
5/14/95 HENRY COUNTY TN REPORTED BY PARIS PD.
606 PM PARIS 1.75 INCH HAIL
5/14/95 HENRY COUNTY TN REPORTED BY JACKSON THP.The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 8:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Cross | 47 min |
| May 15, 9:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crittenden, St. Francis | 45 min |
| May 15, 10:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | St. Francis | 29 min |
| May 15, 10:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crittenden | 37 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.