Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 26, 1997, 11:47 PM CST for Hardin County, Henderson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 33 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
- Feb 26, 1997, 11:47 PM CST (05:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 27, 1997, 12:20 AM CST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hardin County, TN, Henderson County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:50 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.
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, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 165 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.
254 WUUS1 KMEM 270547 RRA SVRMEM TNC071-077-270620- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1147 PM CST WED FEB 26 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1220 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WESTERN TENNESSEE ...HARDIN COUNTY ...EXTREME SOUTHERN HENDERSON COUNTY AT 1145 PM DOPPLER RADAR IN MEMPHIS INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING OUT OF NORTHEAST MCNAIRY COUNTY INTO EXTREME NORTHWEST HARDIN COUNTY AND EXTREME SOUTHERN HENDERSON COUNTY BETWEEN SARDIS AND SALTILLO. ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER MCNAIRY COUNTY WILL MOVE INTO HARDIN COUNTY NORTHWEST OF SAVANNAH SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT. DAMAGING WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED 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.
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
Special weather statement, Feb 26, 10:58 PM CST, 49 minutes before
MOZ113-115-270605- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1058 PM CST WED FEB 26 1997 TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 70 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR DUNKLIN AND PEMISCOT COUNTIES IN THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL. THE LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAS MOVED EAST OF THE MISSOURI BOOTLEEL AND NO LONGER POSES A THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER.
Special weather statement, Feb 26, 10:59 PM CST, 48 minutes before
MOZ113-115-270605- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1058 PM CST WED FEB 26 1997 TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 70 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR DUNKLIN AND PEMISCOT COUNTIES IN THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL. THE LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAS MOVED EAST OF THE MISSOURI BOOTLEEL AND NO LONGER POSES A THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER.
Special weather statement, Feb 26, 11:41 PM CST, 6 minutes before
TNZ001>004-019>021-048>052-088>090-270645- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1141 PM CST WED FEB 26 1997 TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 70 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR WEST TENNESSEE EXCEPT HENDERSON...CHESTER...MCNAIRY...HARDIN AND DECATUR COUNTIES. AT 1130 PM CST DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM DECATUR COUNTY SOUTHWESTWARD ACROSS SOUTHERN HENDERSON...CHESTER...AND MCNAIRY COUNTIES IN SOUTHEASTERN WEST TENNESSEE TO NORTHEAST MISSISSPPI NEAR TUPELO. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER ON LONGER EXISTS FOR WEST TENNESSEE BEHIND THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS.
Special weather statement, Feb 26, 11:42 PM CST, 5 minutes before
TNZ001>004-019>021-048>052-088>090-270645- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1141 PM CST WED FEB 26 1997 TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 70 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR WEST TENNESSEE EXCEPT HENDERSON...CHESTER...MCNAIRY...HARDIN AND DECATUR COUNTIES. AT 1130 PM CST DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM DECATUR COUNTY SOUTHWESTWARD ACROSS SOUTHERN HENDERSON...CHESTER...AND MCNAIRY COUNTIES IN SOUTHEA STERN WEST TENNESSEE TO NORTHEAST MISSISSPPI NEAR TUPELO. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER ON LONGER EXISTS FOR WEST TENNESSEE BEHIND THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS.
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, 10:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chester | 34 min |
| Feb 26, 11:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | McNairy | 47 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.