Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 1998, 3:56 AM CDT for Lauderdale County, Tennessee. It was in force for 34 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 16, 1998, 3:56 AM CDT (08:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 1998, 4:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lauderdale 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 16, 12:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 1219 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 868 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMEM 160856 SVRMEM TNC097-160930- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 356 AM CDT THU APR 16 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LAUDERDALE COUNTY IN WESTERN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 430 AM CDT * AT 354 AM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF HALLS AND ANOTHER STORM ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER NORTH OF ASHPORT. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR HALLS BY 400 AM AND OVER CENTRAL LAUDERDALE COUNTY THROUGH 415 AM... .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 16, 2:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lake, Obion | 47 min |
| Apr 16, 3:35 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Dyer | 35 min |
| Apr 16, 4:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crockett | 33 min |
| Apr 16, 4:14 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Crockett | 31 min |
| Apr 16, 4:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Gibson | 31 min |
| Apr 16, 4:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Carroll | 48 min |
| Apr 16, 5:15 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Carroll | 35 min |
| Apr 16, 7:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lake | 35 min |
| Apr 16, 8:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Obion | 35 min |
| Apr 16, 10:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Shelby | 50 min |
| Apr 16, 1:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Henderson | 32 min |
| Apr 16, 2:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Henderson | 21 min |
| Apr 16, 2:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardeman | 33 min |
| Apr 16, 2:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Hardeman, McNairy | 51 min |
| Apr 16, 2:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Henderson | 21 min |
| Apr 16, 3:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Hardin | 47 min |
| Apr 16, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardin, McNairy | 49 min |
| Apr 16, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chester | 35 min |
| Apr 16, 4:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Chester | 35 min |
| Apr 16, 4:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Hardin | 34 min |
| Apr 16, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Henderson | 34 min |
| Apr 16, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardeman | 31 min |
| Apr 16, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardin | 34 min |
| Apr 16, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | McNairy | 33 min |
| Apr 16, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardin | 31 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.