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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Memphis, TN

March 1, 1997Henry County, Weakley County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Mar 1, 1997, 8:04 PM CST for Henry County, Weakley County, Tennessee. It was in force for 51 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, 8:04 PM CST (02:04 UTC)
Expired: Mar 1, 1997, 8:55 PM CST
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Henry County, TN, Weakley County, TN

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:06 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 1, 2:30 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 173 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: 769 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1269 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 207 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 330 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 5.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMEM 020204
TORMEM
TNC079-183-020255-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
804 PM CST SAT MAR 1 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 855 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WESTERN TENNESSEE

   ...NORTHERN HENRY COUNTY
   ...EASTERN WEAKLEY COUNTY
 
AT 802 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR
PALMERSVILLE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE INTO
NORTHWEST HENRY COUNTY AND ON ITS CURRENT PATH WILL PASS NORTH OF
PARIS BY 820 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.l IF NO
BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SAFETY IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A
CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...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, 7:10 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Dyer	35 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, 8:16 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.