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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 289, NWS Memphis, TN

June 13, 1998Henry County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1998, 12:00 AM CDT for Henry County, Tennessee. It was in force for 35 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 13, 1998, 12:00 AM CDT (05:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 1998, 12:35 AM CDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Henry County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 154 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 1998-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1825 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 1998-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 76 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
1825 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1473 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
79 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
4.6

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 1:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGHenderson47 min
Jun 13, 5:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMonroe43 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.