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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 281, NWS Memphis, TN

November 30, 1997Madison County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 30, 1997, 6:38 AM CST for Madison County, Tennessee. It was in force for 37 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 30, 1997, 6:38 AM CST (12:38 UTC)
Expired
Nov 30, 1997, 7:15 AM CST
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Madison County, TN

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 133 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 1997-11-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 1997-11-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 40 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMEM 301243
SVRMEM
TNC113-301315-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
638 AM CST SUN NOV 30 1997


THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WESTERN TENNESSEE

   ...SOUTHEASTERN MADISON COUNTY


AT 637 AM CST... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH
LARGE HAIL NEAR MEDON MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM WILL
MOVE TO NEAR BEMIS AND PINSON BY 700 AM.


.WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES URNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 30, 4:54 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGHaywood36 min
Nov 30, 6:12 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMadison28 min
Nov 30, 6:35 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCarroll, Gibson45 min
Nov 30, 7:20 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCarroll40 min
Nov 30, 7:56 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGHenry34 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.