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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Memphis, TN

March 1, 1997Haywood County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 1, 1997, 3:51 PM CST for Haywood County, Tennessee. It was in force for 34 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: Mar 1, 1997, 3:51 PM CST (21:51 UTC)
Expired: Mar 1, 1997, 4:25 PM CST
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Haywood County, TN

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:52 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 1, 2:30 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 103 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: 1288 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 477 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 174 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 230 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.9
Supercell composite: 6.6

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMEM 012151 RRA
SVRMEM
TNC075-012225-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
351 PM CST SAT MAR 1 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 425 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WESTERN TENNESSEE

   ...NORTHERN HAYWOOD COUNTY
 
AT 349 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER
WEATHER RADAR 10 MILES NORTH OF BROWNSVILLE OR 4 MILES NORTH OF
BELLE EAGLE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

THIS STORM WILL PASS NEAR FORKED DEER BETWEEN 355 PM AND 410 PM.

.A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.
REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONA^LLY DO PRODUCE
TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE
ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

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, 9:09 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Henry	31 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

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.