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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Jul 5, 1995, 1:17 AM CDT for Greene County, Arkansas. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 1995, 1:17 AM CDT (06:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 1995, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Greene County, AR
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 1455 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1010 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 221 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMEM 050616 TORMEM ARC055-050700- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 117 AM CDT WED JUL 5 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 AM CDT FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST ARKANSAS ...GREENE COUNTY AT 112AM...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED IN WALCOTT ARKANSAS. SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE HAS BEEN REPORTED. DOPPLER RADAR INDICTAED THAT THIS TORNADO WILL MOVE EAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL MOVE THROUGH PARAGOULD BY 130 AM. 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. &
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, Jul 4, 8:12 PM CDT, 5 hours 5 minutes before
TNZ001>102-050215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 811 PM CDT (911 PM EDT) TUE JUL 4 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 709 CANCELLED FOR PARTS OF WEST AND MIDDLE TENNESSEE... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS CANCELLED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 709 FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TENNESSEE... BENTON...CARROLL...CHEATHAM...DAVIDSON..DECATUR...DICKSON...GILES... HARDIN...HENDERSON...HENRY...HICKMAN...HOUSTON...HUMPHREYS...LAWRENCE ...LEWIS...LINCOLN...MARSHALL...MAURY...MONTGOMERY...PERRY... ROBERTSON...STEWART...WAYNE...WEAKLEY...WILLIAMSON... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE NOW MOVE NORTH AND EAST OF THE COUNTIES AND THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED. WATCH 709 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE REST OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT. RES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 12:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Craighead | 55 min |
| Jul 5, 12:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Poinsett | 66 min |
| Jul 5, 1:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Cross | 69 min |
| Jul 5, 1:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Mississippi | 68 min |
| Jul 5, 1:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crittenden, St. Francis | 56 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.