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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 285, NWS Memphis, TN

June 10, 1998Haywood County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1998, 7:33 AM CDT for Haywood County, Tennessee. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 10, 1998, 7:33 AM CDT (12:33 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 1998, 8:05 AM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Haywood County, TN

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 103 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 1998-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 602 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 1998-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -158 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
602 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-195 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1091 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-158 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

670 
WUUS1 KMEM 101232 RRA
SVRMEM
TNC075-101305-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
733 AM CDT WED JUN 10 1998


THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN HAYWOOD COUNTY IN WESTERN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 805 AM CDT

* AT 729 AM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
  WITH LARGE HAIL 12 MILES WEST OF BROWNSVILLE OR 7 MILES SOUTHWEST
  OF NUTBUSH MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BELLE EAGLE BY 745 AM 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 8:04 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCrockett31 min
Jun 10, 8:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMadison49 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.