Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 704
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 19, 1997, 8:15 PM EDT for 74 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 19, 1997, 8:15 PM EDT (00:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 20, 1997, 2:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 74 counties
Anderson County, TN, Bedford County, TN, Benton County, TN, Bledsoe County, TN, Bradley County, TN, Campbell County, TN, Cannon County, TN, Carroll County, TN, Cheatham County, TN, Chester County, TN, Clay County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Crockett County, TN, Cumberland County, TN, Davidson County, TN, Decatur County, TN, DeKalb County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Dyer County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Fentress County, TN, Franklin County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Giles County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Hamilton County, TN, Hardeman County, TN, Hardin County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Henderson County, TN, Henry County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Lake County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Lincoln County, TN, Loudon County, TN, Macon County, TN, Madison County, TN, Marion County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN, McMinn County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Meigs County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Moore County, TN, Morgan County, TN, Obion County, TN, Overton County, TN, Perry County, TN, Pickett County, TN, Putnam County, TN, Rhea County, TN, Roane County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Scott County, TN, Sequatchie County, TN, Smith County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN, Wayne County, TN, Weakley County, TN, White County, TN, Williamson County, TN, Wilson County, TN
Warnings issued inside it
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 8:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cumberland | 59 min |
| Aug 19, 8:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Putnam, White | 27 min |
| Aug 19, 8:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Wayne | 25 min |
| Aug 19, 9:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cumberland | 60 min |
| Aug 19, 9:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson | 27 min |
| Aug 19, 9:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Morgan, Roane | 56 min |
| Aug 19, 9:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford, Wilson | 45 min |
| Aug 20, 1:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Overton | 41 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 264 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
- 1208 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1388 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Tennessee, 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.