Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 26, 1997, 10:31 PM CST for Chester County, Tennessee. It was in force for 34 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
- Feb 26, 1997, 10:31 PM CST (04:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 26, 1997, 11:05 PM CST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Chester County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:34 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 10:42 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Montezuma, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 8:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 553 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 78 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -127 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 302 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 270431 RRA SVRMEM TNC023-270505- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1031 PM CST WED FEB 26 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1105 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WESTERN TENNESSEE ...CHESTER COUNTY AT 1030 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ENTERING WESTERN CHESTER COUNTY. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH AND WILL BE AFFECTING HENDERSON BY 1040 PM. EXPECT DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS WITH THESE STORMS. .A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 10:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardeman, Madison | 47 min |
| Feb 26, 11:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | McNairy | 47 min |
| Feb 26, 11:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardin, Henderson | 33 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.