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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Jun 6, 1995, 2:49 PM CDT for Gibson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 6, 1995, 2:49 PM CDT (19:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 1995, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gibson County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 832 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -115 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1185 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMEM 061949 TORMEM TNC053-062030- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 249 PM CDT TUE JUN 6 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM CDT FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN WEST TENNESSEE ...GIBSON COUNTY AT 245 PM...SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR GIBSON WELLS 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TRENTON. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE NEAR TRENTON BY 330 PM. GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AND WIND DAMAGE HAS OCCURRED WITH THIS STORM DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OTF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 1:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette, Haywood | 41 min |
| Jun 6, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Shelby | 45 min |
| Jun 6, 1:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tipton | 29 min |
| Jun 6, 2:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crockett, Haywood | 47 min |
| Jun 6, 2:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Gibson | 28 min |
| Jun 6, 2:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tipton | 47 min |
| Jun 6, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Obion, Weakley | 45 min |
| Jun 6, 2:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Gibson | 50 min |
| Jun 6, 3:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Madison | 27 min |
| Jun 6, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Benton, Carroll | 43 min |
| Jun 6, 4:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chester, Henderson | 51 min |
| Jun 6, 4:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Decatur | 51 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.