Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 28, 1997, 6:18 PM CST for Carroll County, Henry 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, 6:18 PM CST (00:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 1997, 6:50 PM CST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Carroll County, TN, Henry County, TN
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:21 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 28, 5:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 1331 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1544 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 390 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 11.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMEM 290018 RRA SVRMEM TNC017-079-290050- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 618 PM CST FRI MAR 28 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 650 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WESTERN TENNESSEE ...NORTHEASTERN CARROLL COUNTY ...SOUTHEASTERN HENRY COUNTY AT 615 PM .. DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT BROUGHT GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL TO SEVERAL SECTIONS OF NORTHERN CARROLL COUNTY BETWEEN 540 PM AND 615 PM .. WAS JUST NORTH OF BRUCETON AND CONTINUED MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THE STORM WILL PASS OUT OF NORTHEAST CARROLL COUNTY AND ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF HENRY COUNTY .. THROUGH THE MANSFIELD & MANLEYVILLE AREAS BETWEEN 620 PM AND 645 PM. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND WILL CONTINUE AS THE STORM MOVES OVER. .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 28, 6:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Madison | 46 min |
| Mar 28, 6:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette, Hardeman | 33 min |
| Mar 28, 6:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chester, McNairy | 48 min |
| Mar 28, 7:05 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | McNairy | 35 min |
| Mar 28, 7:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardeman, McNairy | 47 min |
| Mar 28, 7:27 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Hardin | 33 min |
| Mar 28, 7:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | McNairy | 34 min |
| Mar 28, 8:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardin | 33 min |
| Mar 28, 8:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Hardin | 33 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.