Severe Thunderstorm Warning 88, NWS Memphis, TN

Issued

Mar 28, 1997, 5:15 PM CST (23:15 UTC)

Expired

Mar 28, 1997, 6:05 PM CST

In force

50 min

Issued by

NWS Memphis, TN

Area

Whole counties

Counties Fayette County, TN, Hardeman County, TN

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:18 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.

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.

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SVRMEM
TNC047-069-290005-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 605 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN WESTERN TENNESSEE

   ...NORTHEASTERN FAYETTE COUNTY
   ...NORTHERN HARDEMAN COUNTY
 
AT 513 PM..DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR
LACONIA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THIS STORM WILL PASS NEAR
WHITEVILLE AND TOON IN HARDEMAN COUNTY BY 545 PM.

LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.

.WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

In the hours before

MOZ113-115-TNZ001>004-019>021-048>054-088>092-282345-

WEST TENNESSEE/MISSOURI BOOTHEEL SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
1130 AM CST FRI MAR 28 1997

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS
EVENING...

THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MUCH OF WEST
TENNESSEE AND THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY THIS
EVENING.

A COLD FRONT WAS PUSHING INTO NORTHWEST ARKANSAS LATE THIS MORNING..
AND THIS FRONT WILL HELP TO SET OFF THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON
ACROSS THE MID-SOUTH. AHEAD OF THE FRONT STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS WERE
PUMPING WARM..MOIST AND INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE AIR INTO THE AREA.

AS THE FRONT APPROACHES..A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY DEVELOP
OVER MISSOURI AND ARKANSAS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE
MISSISSIPPI RIVER INTO WEST TENNESSEE AFTER 3 PM. GIVEN THE UNSTABLE
AIR MASS IN PLACE AND THE STRONG WINDS AT THE SURFACE AND ALOFT..SOME
OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE.

THE PRIMARY THREAT WITH THIS AFTERNOONS STORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS. HOWEVER..WITH THE AMOUNT OF WIND SHEAR ASSOCIATED WITH
THIS WEATHER SYSTEM..AND THE UNSTABLE AIR MASS..ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE
ALSO POSSIBLE.

PEOPLE IN WEST TENNESSEE AND THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL SHOULD MONITOR
THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER
RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION..INCLUDING WATCHES AND
WARNINGS.

AMATEUR RADIO SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD
BE PREPARED FOR SKYWARN ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO..LOCAL TV..RADIO OR CABLE TELEVISION
FOR LATER UPDATES ON THIS AFTERNOONS SEVERE WEATHER THREAT.

RDS

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.