Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 248, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1997, 6:40 PM CDT for Fayette County, Tennessee. It was in force for 35 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
- Jul 28, 1997, 6:40 PM CDT (23:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 1997, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fayette County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 6:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | La Grange, TN | Numerous trees were blown down. |
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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 64 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
- 2634 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1130 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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
Local storm report, Jul 28, 6:17 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TENNESSEE
617 PM CDT MON JUL 28 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0130 PM 5 E DYERSBURG TN WIND DAMAGE
07/28/97 DYER SEVERAL TREES DOWNED WITH
SOME MINOR STRUCTURAL
DAMAGE REPORTED NEAR
ROELLEN BY EMA DIRECTOR
0325 PM 10 SE DYERSBURG TN .75 INCH HAIL
07/28/97 DYER DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY
SPOTTERLocal storm report, Jul 28, 6:19 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TENNESSEE
617 PM CDT MON JUL 28 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0130 PM 5 E DYERSBURG TN WIND DAMAGE
07/28/97 DYER SEVERAL TREES DOWNED WITH
SOME MINOR STRUCTURAL
DAMAGE REPORTED NEAR
ROELLEN BY EMA DIRECTOR
0325 PM 10 SE DYERSBURG TN .75 INCH HAIL
07/28/97 DYER DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY
SPOTTERThe office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Dyer | 31 min |
| Jul 28, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardeman | 34 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.