Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 293, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1998, 12:43 AM CDT for Dyer 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
- Jun 14, 1998, 12:43 AM CDT (05:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1998, 1:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dyer County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:43 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 1:15 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Newbern, TN | Several large tree limbs 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, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 4433 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1215 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 7.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
644 WUUS1 KMEM 140542 RRA SVRMEM TNC045-140615- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1243 AM CDT SUN JUN 14 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN DYER COUNTY IN WESTERN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 115 AM CDT * AT 1241 AM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF DYERSBURG OR IN THE VICINITY OF MISTON MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... MILLSFIELD BY 1250 AM CDT NEWBERN BY 100 AM CDT .THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 1:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Obion | 34 min |
| Jun 14, 1:13 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Dyer | 32 min |
| Jun 14, 1:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Gibson | 45 min |
| Jun 14, 2:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Carroll | 42 min |
| Jun 14, 5:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lake | 34 min |
| Jun 14, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Obion | 48 min |
| Jun 14, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Weakley | 32 min |
| Jun 14, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Weakley | 31 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.