Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 1, 1997, 8:48 PM CST for Tipton County, Tennessee. It was in force for 32 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, 8:48 PM CST (02:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 1, 1997, 9:20 PM CST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tipton County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:51 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, 8:50 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Munford, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 2:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 76 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
- 491 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 602 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMEM 020249 RRA SVRMEM TNC167-020320- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 848 PM CST SAT MAR 1 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 920 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WESTERN TENNESSEE ...TIPTON COUNTY AT 841 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR MILLINGTON MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL PASS NEAR MUNFORD..BRIGHTON..AND COVINGTON BY 915 PM. DAMAGING WINDS WILL ACCOMPANY THIS STORM. .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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 7:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Dyer | 44 min |
| Mar 1, 7:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Dyer | 35 min |
| Mar 1, 7:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Gibson | 34 min |
| Mar 1, 7:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Weakley | 35 min |
| Mar 1, 8:04 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Henry, Weakley | 51 min |
| Mar 1, 8:16 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Dyer, Gibson, Obion, Weakley | 5 hr |
| Mar 1, 8:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Shelby | 34 min |
| Mar 1, 9:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Haywood | 45 min |
| Mar 1, 9:17 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Fayette, Haywood, Shelby, Tipton | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:03 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Shelby | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:36 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Chester, Hardeman, Madison | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:36 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Carroll, Henderson | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette | 33 min |
| Mar 1, 11:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chester, Hardeman | 35 min |
| Mar 2, 12:27 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Fayette | 2 hr |
| Mar 2, 12:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chester, McNairy | 34 min |
| Mar 2, 2:11 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | McNairy | 119 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.