Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 1, 1997, 9:09 AM CST for Henry 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
- Mar 1, 1997, 9:09 AM CST (15:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 1, 1997, 9:40 AM CST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Henry County, TN
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 9:20 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Paris, 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 nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 1238 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 505 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 334 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 406 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.0
- Supercell composite
- 13.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMEM 011509 RRA SVRMEM TNC079-011540- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 909 AM CST SAT MAR 1 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 940 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WESTERN TENNESSEE ...HENRY COUNTY AT 908 AM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR 7 MILES NORTH OF PARIS OR 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BUCHANAN MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THIS STORM WILL PASS NEAR BUCHANAN BY 915 AM CST. .WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECT RICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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, Mar 1, 4:21 AM CST, 4 hours 48 minutes before
TNZ001-002-019-048-049-011055- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 421 AM CST SAT MAR 1 1997 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 74 HAS BEEN CLEARED FOR A SMALL PART OF NORTHWEST TENNESSEE... THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED ACROSS THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF TENNESSEE. THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES HAVE BEEN CLEARED FROM TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 74 - LAKE...OBION...DYER...LAUDERDALE...TIPTON. THE REMAINDER OF WEST AND MUCH OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE REMAIN UNDER A TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 6 AM THIS MORNING. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Feb 28, 6:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette | 31 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, 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 |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.