Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 1998, 4:07 AM CDT for Crockett County, Tennessee. It was in force for 33 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
- Apr 16, 1998, 4:07 AM CDT (09:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 1998, 4:40 AM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Crockett County, TN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 4:20 AM CDT | Tornado F2 | Maury City, TN | The tornado touched down in Maury City and moved northeast toward Crockett Mills. One mobile home was destroyed. Seven houses were damaged. Five farm sheds were destroyed. Several trees were blown down. |
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.
| 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 132 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.
878 WUUS1 KMEM 160906 RRA SVRMEM TNC033-160940- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 407 AM CDT THU APR 16 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CROCKETT COUNTY IN WESTERN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 440 AM CDT * AT 404 AM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 10 MILES WEST OF ALAMO OR 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF MAURY CITY MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... GADSDEN BY 420 AM CDT .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, 3:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lauderdale | 34 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.