Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 32, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at May 26, 1997, 8:30 PM CDT for Madison 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
- May 26, 1997, 8:30 PM CDT (01:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1997, 9:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Madison County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| May 26, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 4008 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 884 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 4.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMEM 270131 TORMEM TNC113-270205- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 830 PM CDT MON MAY 26 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 905 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WESTERN TENNESSEE ...MADISON COUNTY AT 828 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO ALONG INTERSTATE 40 OR 7 MILES WEST OF JACKSON. THIS STORM IS MOVING SOUTHEAST 25 MPH AND WILL PASS NEAR MCKELLAR AIRPORT BY 835 AND BEMIS BY 840 PM AND PINSON BY 850 PM. .THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OT0HERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lauderdale | 46 min |
| May 26, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Haywood | 48 min |
| May 26, 7:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Haywood | 32 min |
| May 26, 8:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Madison | 46 min |
| May 26, 9:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chester | 33 min |
| May 26, 9:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardeman | 51 min |
| May 26, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | McNairy | 48 min |
| May 26, 9:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardin | 46 min |
| May 27, 3:24 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Tipton | 31 min |
| May 27, 3:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Shelby | 48 min |
| May 27, 4:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette | 33 min |
| May 27, 4:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardeman | 46 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.