Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1998, 8:16 PM CDT for Hardeman County, Tennessee. It was in force for 49 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
- May 28, 1998, 8:16 PM CDT (01:16 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 1998, 9:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hardeman County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:18 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 8:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Saulsbury, TN | Some trees 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 nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 249 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 577 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
674 WUUS1 KMEM 290118 RRA SVRMEM TNC069-290205- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 816 PM CDT THU MAY 28 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HARDEMAN COUNTY IN WESTERN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 905 PM CDT * AT 815 PM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS NEAR GRAND JUNCTION MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... HICKORY VALLEY BY 825 PM CDT BOLIVAR BY 840 PM CDT WHITEVILLE BY 845 PM CDT .WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Shelby | 49 min |
| May 28, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tipton | 35 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.