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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Memphis, TN

March 1, 1997Hardin County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Mar 1, 1997, 2:59 AM CST for Hardin County, Tennessee. It was in force for 21 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, 2:59 AM CST (08:59 UTC)
Expired: Mar 1, 1997, 3:20 AM CST
In force: 21 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Hardin County, TN

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, 1:00 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 166 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: 3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -249 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 490 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 285 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 344 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMEM 010859 RRA
TORMEM
TNC071-010920-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 320 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WESTERN TENNESSEE

   ...SOUTHEASTERN HARDIN COUNTY
 
AT 258 AM CST...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER WEATHER
RADAR 16 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SAVANNAH OR IN THE VICINITY OF WALNUT
GROVE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

.

.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 ASN 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
Feb 28, 6:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crockett	32 min
Feb 28, 6:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tipton	32 min
Feb 28, 6:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lauderdale	35 min
Feb 28, 6:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Fayette	31 min
Mar 1, 12:35 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Hardin	35 min
Mar 1, 2:38 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Chester	92 min
Mar 1, 3:33 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Fayette, Hardeman	2 hr
Mar 1, 3:42 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Madison	2 hr
Mar 1, 4:47 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Henderson	2 hr
Mar 1, 9:09 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Henry	31 min
Mar 1, 3:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Haywood	34 min
Mar 1, 3:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crockett	35 min
Mar 1, 4:15 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Crockett, Gibson	35 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.