Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 1998, 12:14 PM CST for Carroll County, Tennessee. It was in force for 51 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
- Apr 3, 1998, 12:14 PM CST (18:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 1998, 1:05 PM CST
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Carroll County, TN
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:18 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 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 888 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMEM 031813 RRA SVRMEM TNC017-031905- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1214 PM CST FRI APR 3 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 105 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WESTERN TENNESSEE ...CARROLL COUNTY AT 1214 PM CST... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HUNTINGDON OR 6 MILES WEST OF CLARKSBURG MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM WILL PASS NEAR CLARKSBURG BY 1210 PM CST... HUNTINGDON BY 1220 PM CST AND BRUCETON BY 1240 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 12:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Gibson, Weakley | 47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.