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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at May 14, 1995, 10:21 PM CDT for Pemiscot County, Missouri; Lake County, Tennessee. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 1995, 10:21 PM CDT (03:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 1995, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Pemiscot County, MO, Lake County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:20 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, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 163 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 150321 TORMEM MOC155-TNC095-150415- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1021 PM CDT SUN MAY 14 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 PM CDT FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S... IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI ...NORTHERN PEMISCOT COUNTY IN WEST TENNESSEE ...LAKE COUNTY AT 1014 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER NORTHERN PEMISCOT COUNTY NEAR INTERSTATE 55. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL MOVE ACROSS THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND INTO LAKE COUNTY NEAR WYNNBURG TENNESSEE BETWEEN 1020 AND 1050 PM CDT. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
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 | Pemiscot | 50 min |
| May 14, 11:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Dunklin | 35 min |
| May 14, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Pemiscot | 30 min |
| May 14, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Dyer, Gibson | 43 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.