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Tornado Watch 115

March 28, 199741 counties in Tennessee

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 28, 1997, 5:30 PM CST for 41 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 28, 1997, 5:30 PM CST (23:30 UTC)
Expired: Mar 28, 1997, 11:00 PM CST
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 41 counties

Benton County, TN, Carroll County, TN, Cheatham County, TN, Chester County, TN, Clay County, TN, Crockett County, TN, Davidson County, TN, Decatur County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Giles 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, Lawrence County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Macon County, TN, Madison County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Perry County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Smith County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Wayne County, TN, Weakley County, TN, Williamson County, TN, Wilson County, TN

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

42 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 28, 5:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Gibson	33 min
Mar 28, 5:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chester	49 min
Mar 28, 5:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Carroll	34 min
Mar 28, 5:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman, Williamson	40 min
Mar 28, 5:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Robertson	52 min
Mar 28, 6:00 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Robertson	45 min
Mar 28, 6:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Madison	46 min
Mar 28, 6:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Fayette, Hardeman	33 min
Mar 28, 6:16 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Sumner	44 min
Mar 28, 6:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Carroll, Henry	32 min
Mar 28, 6:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton	41 min
Mar 28, 6:22 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Davidson, Wilson	38 min
Mar 28, 6:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Houston, Humphreys	44 min
Mar 28, 6:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Decatur	56 min
Mar 28, 6:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chester, McNairy	48 min
Mar 28, 6:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Perry	39 min
Mar 28, 6:55 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Dickson, Humphreys	50 min
Mar 28, 7:01 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Benton, Decatur	44 min
Mar 28, 7:05 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	McNairy	35 min
Mar 28, 7:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lewis	43 min
Mar 28, 7:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Hardeman, McNairy	47 min
Mar 28, 7:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham	51 min
Mar 28, 7:27 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Hardin	33 min
Mar 28, 7:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman, Maury	44 min
Mar 28, 7:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	McNairy	34 min
Mar 28, 7:43 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson	47 min
Mar 28, 7:54 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Wayne	51 min
Mar 28, 8:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Sumner, Wilson	44 min
Mar 28, 8:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Hardin	33 min
Mar 28, 8:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Williamson	49 min
Mar 28, 8:17 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Hardin	33 min
Mar 28, 8:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Macon, Trousdale	50 min
Mar 28, 8:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford	44 min
Mar 28, 8:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence	49 min
Mar 28, 8:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Smith	36 min
Mar 28, 9:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Marshall	43 min
Mar 28, 9:06 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Smith	54 min
Mar 28, 9:12 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Jackson	48 min
Mar 28, 9:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford, Wilson	37 min
Mar 28, 9:26 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	DeKalb, Wilson	49 min
Mar 28, 9:35 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Giles, Lawrence	40 min
Mar 28, 9:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Sumner	31 min

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 160 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 554 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 72 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 287 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 292 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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The text

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

000 
WWUS9 KMKC 282316
MKC WW 282316
TNZ000-300500-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 115
STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
516 PM CST FRI MAR 28 1997

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 28, 12:30 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Dyer, Fayette, Gibson and 10 more	6 hr

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.