Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 280, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 30, 1997, 6:35 AM CST for Carroll County, Gibson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 45 min. 2 reports 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
- Nov 30, 1997, 6:35 AM CST (12:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 30, 1997, 7:20 AM CST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Carroll County, TN, Gibson County, TN
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:37 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 30, 7:10 AM CST | Hail 0.75 | Cedar Grove, TN | Some roads around Cedar Grove were iced over because of the hail. |
| Nov 30, 7:25 AM CST | Hail 1.75 | Leach, TN | Several homes were damaged with one home having 17 windows in it broken. |
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, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 836 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 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 301239 SVRMEM TNC017-053-301320- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 635 AM CST SUN NOV 30 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 720 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WESTERN TENNESSEE ...WESTERN CARROLL COUNTY ...EASTERN GIBSON COUNTY AT 630 AM CST... BETWEEN 600 AND 6300 AMD STORM SPOTTERS AROUND JACKSON HAVE GIVEN NUMEROUS REPORTS OF DIME TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL WITH A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NOW MOVING OUT OF NORTHEAST MADISON COUNTY TOWARD THE GIBSON AND CARROLL COUNTY LINE. THIS STORM IS NEAR MEDINA AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH WILL PASS MILAN AND ATWOOD BETWEEN 700 AMD 715 AM. .WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PAHSSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 30, 4:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Haywood | 36 min |
| Nov 30, 6:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Madison | 28 min |
| Nov 30, 6:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Madison | 37 min |
| Nov 30, 7:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Carroll | 40 min |
| Nov 30, 7:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Henry | 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.