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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Memphis, TN

March 28, 1997Chester County, McNairy County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 28, 1997, 6:47 PM CST for Chester County, McNairy County, Tennessee. It was in force for 48 min. 2 reports 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 28, 1997, 6:47 PM CST (00:47 UTC)
Expired: Mar 28, 1997, 7:35 PM CST
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Chester County, TN, McNairy County, TN

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:51 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 28, 7:05 PM CST	Tornado F0	Bethel Spgs, TN
Mar 28, 7:15 PM CST	Hail 1	Finger, 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 28, 5:30 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 134 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2379 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 183 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 290048 RRA
SVRMEM
TNC023-109-290135-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 735 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN WESTERN TENNESSEE

   ...CHESTER COUNTY
   ...MCNAIRY COUNTY
 
AT 645 PM .. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EAST-CENTRAL HARDEMAN
COUNTY CONTINUED TO PRODUCE DIME TO GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AS IT MOVED
NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. CONTINUING ALONG THAT TRACK .. THE STORM WILL
MOVE ACROSS CHESTER AND MCNAIRY COUNTIES BETWEEN 650 PM AND 730 PM
THIS EVENING.

LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND WILL ACCOMPANY THIS STORM. THE
MASSEYVILLE .. MCNAIRY .. FINGER .. AND MONTEZUMA AREAS ARE IN THE
PATH OF THE 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 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, 6:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Carroll, Henry	32 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.