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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Memphis, TN

March 28, 1997Weakley County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 28, 1997, 3:13 AM CST for Weakley County, Tennessee. It was in force for 17 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, 3:13 AM CST (09:13 UTC)
Expired
Mar 28, 1997, 3:30 AM CST
In force
17 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Weakley County, TN

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:13 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.

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Mar 28, 12:30 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 191 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, Nashville Metro, TN 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 1997-03-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 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
2841 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
51 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.

609 
WUUS1 KMEM 280914 RRA
SVRMEM
TNC183-280930-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WESTERN TENNESSEE

   ...NORTHERN WEAKLEY COUNTY
 
AT 313 AM..DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR LATHAM
IN NORTHERN WEAKLEY COUNTY MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 60 MPH. THIS STORM
WILL LIKELY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL.

.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, 2 hours 23 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, 2 hours 21 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, 2:18 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGHardin32 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.