Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 315, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1998, 12:23 AM CDT for Crockett County, Gibson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 47 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 16, 1998, 12:23 AM CDT (05:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1998, 1:10 AM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Crockett County, TN, Gibson County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:27 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 221 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
- 588 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1367 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 253 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 15, 7:25 PM CDT, 4 hours 58 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TENNESSEE
725 PM CDT MON JUN 15 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0645 PM BIG CREEK MS 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/15/98 CALHOUN GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED
BY SPOTTER
0645 PM BIG CREEK MS WIND DAMAGE
06/15/98 CALHOUN ROOF BLOWN OFF OF HOUSE
REPORTED BY SPOTTER
0700 PM DERMA MS .88 INCH HAIL
06/15/98 CALHOUN NICKLE SIZE HAIL REPORTED
BY SPOTTER
0700 PM DERMA MS WIND DAMAGE
06/15/98 CALHOUN MS TREES DOWN REPORTED BY
SPOTTER
0720 PM HOUSTON MS 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/15/98 CHICKASAW QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED
BY SPOTTERLocal storm report, Jun 15, 8:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TENNESSEE
830 PM CDT MON JUN 15 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0Local storm report, Jun 15, 8:55 PM CDT, 3 hours 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TENNESSEE
855 PM CDT MON JUN 15 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0830 PM SLATE SPRINGS MS .75 INCH HAIL
06/15/98 CALHOUN DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY
CALHOUN COUNTY SHERIFF
0830 PM SLATE SPRINGS MS WIND DAMAGE
06/15/98 CALHOUN TREES DOWN REPORTED BY
CALHOUN COUNTY SHERIFFLocal storm report, Jun 15, 8:55 PM CDT, 3 hours 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TENNESSEE
855 PM CDT MON JUN 15 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0830 PM SLATE SPRINGS MS .75 INCH HAIL
06/15/98 CALHOUN DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY
CALHOUN COUNTY SHERIFF
0830 PM SLATE SPRINGS MS WIND DAMAGE
06/15/98 CALHOUN TREES DOWN REPORTED BY
CALHOUN COUNTY SHERIFFSpecial weather statement, Jun 15, 9:38 PM CDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before
MSZ013>017-020>024-030-031-160340- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 938 PM CDT MON JUN 15 1998 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 590 CANCELLED FOR NORTH MISSISSIPPI... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 590 HAS BEEN CANCELLED ACROSS NORTH MISSISSIPPI WHICH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... CALHOUN..CHICKASAW..CLAY..ITAWAMBA..LAFAYETTE..LEE..LOWNDES.. MONROE..PONTOTOC..TALLAHATCHIE..UNION AND YALOBUSHA. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THAT PROMPTED THE WATCH ACROSS NORTH MISSISSIPPI HAVE WEAKENED AND MOVED EAST. THUS..THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED ACROSS NORTH MISSISSIPPI.
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 9:38 PM CDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before
MSZ013>017-020>024-030-031-160340- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 938 PM CDT MON JUN 15 1998 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 590 CANCELLED FOR NORTH MISSISSIPPI... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 590 HAS BEEN CANCELLED ACROSS NORTH MISSISSIPPI WHICH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... CALHOUN..CHICKASAW..CLAY..ITAWAMBA..LAFAYETTE..LEE..LOWNDES.. MONROE..PONTOTOC..TALLAHATCHIE..UNION AND YALOBUSHA. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THAT PROMPTED THE WATCH ACROSS NORTH MISSISSIPPI HAVE WEAKENED AND MOVED EAST. THUS..THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED ACROSS NORTH MISSISSIPPI.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 11:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Dyer | 47 min |
| Jun 15, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chickasaw | 29 min |
| Jun 15, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Monroe | 34 min |
| Jun 15, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba | 31 min |
| Jun 15, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Chickasaw | 55 min |
| Jun 15, 11:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Mississippi | 34 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.