Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 10, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Apr 20, 1995, 7:26 PM CDT for Lowndes County, Mississippi. It was in force for 34 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 20, 1995, 7:26 PM CDT (00:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 1995, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lowndes County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 1059 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 943 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 4.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMEM 210027 TORMEM MSC087-210100- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 726 PM CDT THU APR 20 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI ...LOWNDES COUNTY A TORNADO WAS MOVING TOWARD COLUMBUS AT 725 PM...AND WILL ENTER COLUMBUS BETWEEN NOW AND 800 PM. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN COLUMBUS AND LOWNDES COUNTY SHOULD TAKE COVER NOW!! THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE..@.GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT. &
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Apr 20, 6:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
TNZ001>004-019>021-048>054-088>092-210000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 600 PM CDT THU APR 20 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR WEST TENNESSEE HAS BEEN CANCELLED... THUNDERSTORMS OVER WEST TENNESSEE HAVE DIMINISHED IN INTENSITY OVER THE PAST HOUR AND NO LONGER POSE A THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS OVER WEST TENNESSEE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. A COLD FRONT WHICH HAS TRIGGERED TODAYS STORMY WEATHER IS CURRENTLY OVER EASTERN ARKANSAS AND SHOULD CROSS INTO WEST TENNESSEE WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. A LINE OF BRIEF HEAVY RAIN WILL ACCOMPANY THIS FRONT AS IT MOVES EAST ACROSS WEST TENNESSEE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lowndes | 54 min |
| Apr 20, 7:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lowndes | 18 min |
| Apr 20, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Monroe | 40 min |
| Apr 20, 7:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Monroe | 52 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.