Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 17, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Mar 1, 1997, 7:10 PM CST for Dyer County, Tennessee. It was in force for 35 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 1, 1997, 7:10 PM CST (01:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 1, 1997, 7:45 PM CST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dyer County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 1, 2:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 491 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 602 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMEM 020110 TORMEM TNC045-020145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 710 PM CST SAT MAR 1 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WESTERN TENNESSEE ...DYER COUNTY AT 705 PM..SPOTTER REPORTS INDICATED A TORNADO WEST OF DYERSBURG MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 50 MPH. THIS STORM WILL PASS BY NEWBORN BY 720 PM. .IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SAFETY IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PHILLOWS...OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 7:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Dyer | 44 min |
| Mar 1, 7:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Gibson | 34 min |
| Mar 1, 7:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Weakley | 35 min |
| Mar 1, 8:04 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Henry, Weakley | 51 min |
| Mar 1, 8:16 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Dyer, Gibson, Obion, Weakley | 5 hr |
| Mar 1, 8:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Shelby | 34 min |
| Mar 1, 8:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tipton | 32 min |
| Mar 1, 9:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Haywood | 45 min |
| Mar 1, 9:17 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Fayette, Haywood, Shelby, Tipton | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:03 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Shelby | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:36 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Chester, Hardeman, Madison | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:36 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Carroll, Henderson | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette | 33 min |
| Mar 1, 11:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chester, Hardeman | 35 min |
| Mar 2, 12:27 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Fayette | 2 hr |
| Mar 2, 12:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chester, McNairy | 34 min |
| Mar 2, 2:11 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | McNairy | 119 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.