Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 1998, 4:11 PM CST for Hardin County, McNairy County, Tennessee. It was in force for 44 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, 4:11 PM CST (22:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 1998, 4:55 PM CST
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hardin County, TN, McNairy County, TN
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 12:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
414 WUUS1 KMEM 032210 RRA SVRMEM TNC071-109-032255- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 411 PM CST FRI APR 3 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 455 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WESTERN TENNESSEE ...HARDIN COUNTY ...MCNAIRY COUNTY DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTRAL AND NORTH MCNAIRY COUNTY AT 405 PM. MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH .. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BRING DAMAGING WIND AND LARGE HAIL TO THE ADAMSVILLE AREA BY 420 PM AND TO THE SALTILLO AND SAVANNAH AREAS OF HARDIN COUNTY BY 445 PM. THIS STORM HAS ALREADY PRODUCED WIND DAMAGE .. LARGE TREES AND POWER TRANSFORMERS WERE BLOWN DOWN IN MCNAIRY COUNTY BETWEEN 355 PM AND 405 PM. .A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. &
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, 12:14 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 |
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.