Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 112
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 28, 1997, 12:30 AM CST for 5 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 28, 1997, 12:30 AM CST (06:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 1997, 6:00 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 55 counties
Clay County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Greene County, AR, Independence County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, Randolph County, AR, Sharp County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Alexander County, IL, Massac County, IL, Pulaski County, IL, Ballard County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Fulton County, KY, Graves County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McCracken County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Butler County, MO, Carter County, MO, Dunklin County, MO, Mississippi County, MO, New Madrid County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO, Ripley County, MO, Scott County, MO, Stoddard County, MO, Wayne County, MO, Carroll County, TN, Chester County, TN, Crockett County, TN, Dyer County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Hardeman County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Henry County, TN, Lake County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Madison County, TN, Obion County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Tipton County, TN, Weakley County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:29 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.
Warnings issued inside it
2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 1:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Mississippi | 47 min |
| Mar 28, 3:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Weakley | 17 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2290 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 252 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 10:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Marion | 5 hr |
| Mar 28, 2:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Bond, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 44 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 28, 5:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crawford, Lawrence, Wabash | 6 hr |
| Mar 28, 5:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester, Clay, Crockett and 35 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Tennessee, 1997Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Arkansas, 1997Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, 1997Every severe thunderstorm watch in 1997
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.