Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 19, 1998, 3:18 PM CST for Fayette County, Shelby County, Tennessee. It was in force for 32 min. 1 report 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
- Mar 19, 1998, 3:18 PM CST (21:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 1998, 3:50 PM CST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fayette County, TN, Shelby County, TN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 3:25 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlington, TN | Some telephone poles and power lines were blown down. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 3:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 48 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
- 418 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 775 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 3:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Haywood | 47 min |
| Mar 19, 4:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Madison | 50 min |
| Mar 19, 4:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Henderson | 48 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998
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.