Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 326, NWS Memphis, TN

June 21, 1998Haywood County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1998, 5:37 PM CDT for Haywood County, Tennessee. It was in force for 48 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 21, 1998, 5:37 PM CDT (22:37 UTC)
Expired
Jun 21, 1998, 6:25 PM CDT
In force
48 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 22:39 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 21, 5:45 PM CDTThunderstorm WindCountywide, TNOne house suffered roof damage and the top came off of another building in Brownsville. Several store fronts had windows broken. Some trees were knocked down across the county.

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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 21, 4:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 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 1998-06-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1972 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 1998-06-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -2 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1972 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-96 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1038 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 21, 3:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLauderdale62 min
Jun 21, 4:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLauderdale47 min
Jun 21, 5:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGTipton47 min
Jun 21, 5:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGGibson49 min
Jun 21, 5:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGShelby46 min
Jun 21, 6:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGFayette48 min
Jun 21, 6:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMadison48 min
Jun 21, 5:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGGreene34 min
Jun 21, 3:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMississippi49 min
Jun 21, 4:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMississippi30 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.