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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Memphis, TN

May 15, 1995Lauderdale County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1995, 1:17 AM CDT for Lauderdale County, Tennessee. It was in force for 28 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 15, 1995, 1:17 AM CDT (06:17 UTC)
Expired
May 15, 1995, 1:45 AM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Lauderdale County, TN

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:21 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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 107 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 1995-05-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3293 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 1995-05-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 10 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, 5 hours 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 15, 9:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGDeSoto64 min
May 15, 9:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGTunica46 min
May 15, 10:47 AM CDTTornado WarningMEGBenton, Marshall28 min
May 15, 11:12 AM CDTTornado WarningMEGTippah, Union48 min
May 15, 11:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLee, Prentiss49 min
May 15, 11:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGItawamba66 min
May 15, 1:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLowndes30 min
May 14, 7:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGDyer, Gibson43 min
May 14, 10:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLake50 min
May 14, 10:21 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGLake54 min
May 14, 10:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGWeakley30 min
May 14, 11:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGHenry, Weakley42 min
May 15, 12:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGBenton41 min
May 15, 9:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGShelby51 min
May 15, 9:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGShelby17 min
May 15, 10:36 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGShelby39 min
May 15, 10:43 AM CDTTornado WarningMEGShelby32 min
May 15, 12:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMississippi39 min
May 15, 8:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCross47 min
May 15, 9:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCrittenden, St. Francis45 min
May 15, 10:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGSt. Francis29 min
May 15, 10:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCrittenden37 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.