Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 192, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1997, 4:39 PM CDT for Gibson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 31 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 1997, 4:39 PM CDT (21:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1997, 5:10 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gibson County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:43 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 4:50 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Milan, TN |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 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
- 1902 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 610 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 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 132141 RRA SVRMEM TNC053-132210- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 439 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 510 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WESTERN TENNESSEE ...GIBSON COUNTY AT 437 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL JUST SOUTHEAST OF TRENTON ... NEAR MILAN. MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH .. THE STORM WILL BRING DAMAGING HAIL TO THE AREAS AROUND CADES AND MILAN BETWEEN 440 PM AND 505 PM. THIS STORM PRODUCED THREE-QUARTER INCH HAIL EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON. .IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK REFUGE FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Weakley | 36 min |
| Jun 13, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Carroll | 34 min |
| Jun 13, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Carroll | 17 min |
| Jun 13, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Obion | 29 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.