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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Memphis, TN

February 28, 1997Fayette County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 28, 1997, 6:54 PM CST for Fayette County, Tennessee. It was in force for 31 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 28, 1997, 6:54 PM CST (00:54 UTC)
Expired: Feb 28, 1997, 7:25 PM CST
In force: 31 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 00:55 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 28, 7:07 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Rossville, 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 28, 5:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -249 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 490 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 285 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 344 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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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, Feb 28, 3:29 PM CST, 3 hours 25 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TENNESSEE
329 PM CST FRI FEB 28 1997

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0150 PM    OTWELL                    AR   1.75 INCH HAIL
02/28/97   CRAIGHEAD                      GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL WAS
                                          REPORTED ALONG THE COUNTY
                                          LINE.

0203 PM    HERGETT                   AR   1.75 INCH HAIL
02/28/97   CRAIGHEAD                      SPOTTERS REPORTED GOLFBALL
                                          SIZE HAIL.

0200 PM    TRUMANN                   AR   .75 INCH HAIL
02/28/97   POINSETT                       DIME SIZE HAIL COVERED
                                          HIGHWAY 163 ALONG THE
                                          COUNTY LINE.

0200 PM    HARRISBURG                AR   .75 INCH HAIL
02/28/97   POINSETT                       DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY
                                          SHERIFFS OFFICE.

0214 PM    CARDWELL                  MO   1.75 INCH HAIL
02/28/97   DUNKLIN                        POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED
                                          GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL.

0231 PM    KENNETT                   MO   1.25 INCH HAIL
02/28/97   DUNKLIN                        POLICE REPORTED HAIL JUST
                                          SOUTH OF KENNETT.

0250 PM    WARDELL                   MO   1.75 INCH HAIL
02/28/97   PEMISCOT                       GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL COVERED
                                          THE GROUND. REPORT FROM
                                          SHERIFFS OFFICE.

0152 PM    BAY                       AR   2 INCH HAIL
02/28/97   CRAIGHEAD                      SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED
                                          2.OO INCH HAIL.

0301 PM    BIGGERS                   AR   .75 INCH HAIL
02/28/97   RANDOLPH                       SPOTTERS REPORTED DIME
                                          SIZE HAIL.

RDS

Local storm report, Feb 28, 3:30 PM CST, 3 hours 24 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TENNESSEE
329 PM CST FRI FEB 28 1997

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0150 PM    OTWELL                    AR   1.75 INCH HAIL
02/28/97   CRAIGHEAD                      GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL WAS
                                          REPORTED ALONG THE COUNTY
                                          LINE.

0203 PM    HERGETT                   AR   1.75 INCH HAIL
02/28/97   CRAIGHEAD                      SPOTTERS REPORTED GOLFBALL
                                          SIZE HAIL.

0200 PM    TRUMANN                   AR   .75 INCH HAIL
02/28/97   POINSETT                       DIME SIZE HAIL COVERED
                                          HIGHWAY 163 ALONG THE
                                          COUNTY LINE.

0200 PM    HARRISBURG                AR   .75 INCH HAIL
02/28/97   POINSETT                       DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY
                                          SHERIFFS OFFICE.

0214 PM    CARDWELL                  MO   1.75 INCH HAIL
02/28/97   DUNKLIN                        POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED
                                          GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL.

0231 PM    KENNETT                   MO   1.25 INCH HAIL
02/28/97   DUNKLIN                        POLICE REPORTED HAIL JUST
                                          SOUTH OF KENNETT.

0250 PM    WARDELL                   MO   1.75 INCH HAIL
02/28/97   PEMISCOT                       GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL COVERED
                                          THE GROUND. REPORT FROM
                                          SHERIFFS OFFICE.

0152 PM    BAY                       AR   2 INCH HAIL
02/28/97   CRAIGHEAD                      SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED
                                          2.OO INCH HAIL.

0301 PM    BIGGERS                   AR   .75 INCH HAIL
02/28/97   RANDOLPH   <                    SPOTTERS REPORTED DIME
                                          SIZE HAIL.

RDS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 1, 12:41 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Calhoun, Pontotoc	49 min
Mar 1, 12:44 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Calhoun, Pontotoc	51 min
Mar 1, 1:09 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lee, Union	31 min
Mar 1, 2:08 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Yalobusha	32 min
Mar 1, 2:20 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Yalobusha	35 min
Mar 1, 2:33 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tishomingo	32 min
Mar 1, 2:35 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Calhoun	35 min
Mar 1, 2:41 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Tishomingo	19 min
Mar 1, 2:49 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lafayette	31 min
Mar 1, 3:04 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Pontotoc, Union	51 min
Mar 1, 5:28 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tippah	32 min
Feb 28, 6:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crockett	32 min
Feb 28, 6:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tipton	32 min
Feb 28, 6:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lauderdale	35 min
Mar 1, 12:35 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Hardin	35 min
Mar 1, 2:38 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Chester	92 min
Mar 1, 2:59 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Hardin	21 min
Mar 1, 3:33 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Fayette, Hardeman	2 hr
Mar 1, 3:42 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Madison	2 hr
Mar 1, 4:47 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Henderson	2 hr
Mar 1, 9:09 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Henry	31 min
Mar 1, 3:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Haywood	34 min
Mar 1, 3:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crockett	35 min
Mar 1, 4:15 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Crockett, Gibson	35 min
Mar 1, 8:31 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Mississippi	49 min
Mar 1, 1:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Clay	32 min
Mar 1, 3:59 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lawrence	46 min
Mar 1, 4:38 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Greene	32 min
Mar 1, 5:11 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Clay	49 min
Mar 1, 5:19 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Cross, Poinsett	46 min
Mar 1, 5:49 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Craighead	46 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.