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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Memphis, TN

April 3, 1998Gibson County, Weakley County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 1998, 12:08 PM CST for Gibson County, Weakley County, Tennessee. It was in force for 47 min. 2 reports 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: Apr 3, 1998, 12:08 PM CST (18:08 UTC)
Expired: Apr 3, 1998, 12:55 PM CST
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Gibson County, TN, Weakley County, TN

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:12 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
Apr 3, 12:25 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Greenfield, TN
Apr 3, 12:55 PM CST	Hail 1	Dresden, TN

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 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 178 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 177 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -83 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1006 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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The text

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

020 
WUUS1 KMEM 031806 RRA
SVRMEM
TNC053-183-031855-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
1208 PM CST FRI APR 3 1998


THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1255 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN WESTERN TENNESSEE

   ...NORTHERN GIBSON COUNTY
   ...WEAKLEY COUNTY


AT 1206 PM CST... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AND SPOTTERS REPORTED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL 8 MILES NORTH OF TRENTON MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. QUARTER SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN RUTHERFORD AT
1205 PM CST

THIS STORM WILL PASS NEAR GREENFIELD BY 1220 PM CST AND SHARON BY
1225 PM CST.

.SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR
PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE
INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.



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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 3, 12:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Carroll	51 min
Apr 3, 12:31 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Weakley	34 min
Apr 3, 12:49 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Henry	31 min
Apr 3, 2:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lauderdale	45 min
Apr 3, 2:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tipton	48 min
Apr 3, 2:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Fayette, Haywood	33 min
Apr 3, 3:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Fayette, Hardeman, Haywood	30 min
Apr 3, 3:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Dyer, Gibson	34 min
Apr 3, 3:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chester, Henderson	34 min
Apr 3, 4:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Hardin, McNairy	44 min

Nearby

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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.