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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Memphis, TN

April 16, 1998McNairy County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 1998, 5:37 PM CDT for McNairy County, Tennessee. It was in force for 33 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Apr 16, 1998, 5:37 PM CDT (22:37 UTC)
Expired: Apr 16, 1998, 6:10 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Whole counties

County McNairy County, TN

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 16, 5:50 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Selmer, TN	Several trees were knocked down.
Apr 16, 5:55 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Adamsville, TN

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 16, 4:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 132 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: 708 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 497 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 119 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 223 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 2.8

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 16, 12:56 PM CDT, 4 hours 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TENNESSEE
1256 PM CDT THU APR 16 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0815 AM    WYNNBURG                  TN   WIND DAMAGE
04/16/98   LAKE                           CARPORT TORN FROM HOUSE
                                          ONTO HIGHWAY REPORTED BY
                                          EMA

0825 AM    HORNBEAK                  TN   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/16/98   OBION                          GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
                                          REPORTED BY SPOTTER

0928 AM    WHEATLEY                  AR   1 INCH HAIL
04/16/98   ST FRANCIS                     QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          BY POSTMASTER

1015 AM    WEST MEMPHIS              AR   .75 INCH HAIL
04/16/98   CRITTENDEN                     DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY
                                          SPOTTER

1120 AM    GREENFIELD                AR   TORNADO
04/16/98   POINSETT                       TORNADO SPOTTED ON THE
                                          GROUND BY SPOTTER. NO
                                          DAMAGE REPORTED.

Local storm report, Apr 16, 3:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TENNESSEE
345 PM CDT THU APR 16 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0215 PM    REAGAN                    TN   1 INCH HAIL
04/16/98   HENDERSON                      QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          BY HENDERSON COUNTY EMA

0225 PM    MIDDLETON                 TN   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/16/98   HARDEMAN                       GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
                                          REPORTED BY SPOTTER

0250 PM    REAGAN                    TN   1 INCH HAIL
04/16/98   HENDERSON                      QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          BY HENDERSON COUNTY SHERIFF

0253 PM    SELMER                    TN   1.25 INCH HAIL
04/16/98   MCNAIRY                        HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          BY SPOTTER

0315 PM    CRUMP                     TN   1 INCH HAIL
04/16/98   HARDIN                         QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          BY SAVANNAH CENTRAL DISPATCH

The office that day

Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 16, 2:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lake, Obion	47 min
Apr 16, 3:35 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Dyer	35 min
Apr 16, 3:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lauderdale	34 min
Apr 16, 4:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crockett	33 min
Apr 16, 4:14 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Crockett	31 min
Apr 16, 4:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Gibson	31 min
Apr 16, 4:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Carroll	48 min
Apr 16, 5:15 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Carroll	35 min
Apr 16, 7:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lake	35 min
Apr 16, 8:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Obion	35 min
Apr 16, 10:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Shelby	50 min
Apr 16, 1:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Henderson	32 min
Apr 16, 2:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Henderson	21 min
Apr 16, 2:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Hardeman	33 min
Apr 16, 2:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Hardeman, McNairy	51 min
Apr 16, 2:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Henderson	21 min
Apr 16, 3:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Hardin	47 min
Apr 16, 4:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Hardin, McNairy	49 min
Apr 16, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chester	35 min
Apr 16, 4:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Chester	35 min
Apr 16, 4:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Hardin	34 min
Apr 16, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Henderson	34 min
Apr 16, 5:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Hardeman	31 min
Apr 16, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Hardin	34 min
Apr 16, 6:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Hardin	31 min
Apr 16, 4:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tate	37 min
Apr 16, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Marshall	65 min
Apr 16, 4:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tallahatchie	61 min
Apr 16, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Panola	35 min
Apr 16, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Quitman	18 min
Apr 16, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lafayette	31 min
Apr 16, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton	51 min
Apr 16, 6:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Calhoun	48 min
Apr 15, 11:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Randolph	50 min
Apr 16, 12:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lawrence	47 min
Apr 16, 2:16 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Greene	29 min
Apr 16, 2:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead, Mississippi	49 min
Apr 16, 2:42 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Mississippi	33 min
Apr 16, 3:15 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Mississippi	20 min
Apr 16, 6:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Randolph	36 min
Apr 16, 7:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Clay	35 min
Apr 16, 9:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	St. Francis	46 min
Apr 16, 9:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crittenden	34 min
Apr 16, 11:05 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Poinsett	50 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.