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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS Memphis, TN

March 28, 1997Hardin County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 28, 1997, 2:18 AM CST for Hardin County, Tennessee. It was in force for 32 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 28, 1997, 2:18 AM CST (08:18 UTC)
Expired
Mar 28, 1997, 2:50 AM CST
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Hardin County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 166 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 1997-03-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 1997-03-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 184 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2290 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
184 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
252 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMEM 280819 RRA
SVRMEM
TNC071-280850-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
218 AM CST FRI MAR 28 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 250 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WESTERN TENNESSEE

   ...HARDIN COUNTY
 
AT 217 AM..DOIPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES
WEST OF SAVANNAH MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. THIS STORM WILL PASS
NEAR SAVANNAH BY 225 AM AND BY CERRO GORDO BY 235 AM.

LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.

.SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR
PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE
INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

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, Mar 28, 12:50 AM CST, 1 hour 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TENNESSEE
1250 AM CST FRI MAR 28 1997

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

1210 AM    RAVENDEN SPRINGS          AR   .88 INCH HAIL
03/28/97   RANDOLPH                       NICKLE SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          BY RANDOLPH COUNTY
                                          SHERIFFS OFFICE
Local storm report, Mar 28, 12:52 AM CST, 1 hour 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TENNESSEE
1250 AM CST FRI MAR 28 1997

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

1210 AM    RAVENDEN SPRINGS          AR   .88 INCH HAIL
03/28/97   RANDOLPH                       NICKLE SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          BY RANDOLPH COUNTY
                                          SHERIFFS OFFICE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 28, 3:13 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGWeakley17 min
Mar 28, 5:10 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGGibson35 min
Mar 28, 5:15 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGFayette, Hardeman50 min
Mar 28, 5:37 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGGibson33 min
Mar 28, 5:41 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGChester49 min
Mar 28, 5:46 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCarroll34 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.