Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 18, 1987, 4:43 PM CST for Gibson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 62 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 18, 1987, 4:43 PM CST (22:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 18, 1987, 5:45 PM CST
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gibson County, TN
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3537 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 228 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMEM 182251 COR
SVRMEM
TNC053-167-190045-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
443 PM CST WED MAR 18 1987
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN WEST TENNESSEE
...GIBSON...TIPTON
LARGE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN GIBSON COUNTY AT 430 PM. THE THUNDERSTORMS
PRODUCING THE HAIL WAS NEAR TRENTON AND MOVING TOWARD WEAKLEY COUNTY.{
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMiS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.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
Special weather statement, Mar 18, 3:51 PM CST, 52 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 400 PM CST WED MAR 18 1987 ...THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER... A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED AROUND 3 PM CST ACROSS EASTERN ARKANSAS. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL TO NEAR WEST MEMPHIS TO NEAR HELENA ARKANSAS JUST BEFORE 4 PM CST. THESE THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY CONTAIN PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL. IN ADDITION...WIND5S WILL BE GUSTY AND RAIN HEAVY FOR A BRIEF PERIOD OF TIME AS THESE STORMS PASS TO THE EAST. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AND WILL MOVE INTO NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI AND WEST TENNESSEE BEFORE 5 PM CST.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 4:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tipton | 62 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.