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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 98, NWS Memphis, TN

April 16, 1998Gibson County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 1998, 4:29 AM CDT for Gibson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 31 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, 4:29 AM CDT (09:29 UTC)
Expired
Apr 16, 1998, 5:00 AM CDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Gibson County, TN

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Apr 16, 12:00 AM CDTTornado WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 159 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 1998-04-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1219 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 1998-04-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 100 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 16, 2:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLake, Obion47 min
Apr 16, 3:35 AM CDTTornado WarningMEGDyer35 min
Apr 16, 3:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLauderdale34 min
Apr 16, 4:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCrockett33 min
Apr 16, 4:14 AM CDTTornado WarningMEGCrockett31 min
Apr 16, 4:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCarroll48 min
Apr 16, 5:15 AM CDTTornado WarningMEGCarroll35 min
Apr 16, 7:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLake35 min
Apr 16, 8:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGObion35 min
Apr 16, 10:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGShelby50 min
Apr 16, 1:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGHenderson32 min
Apr 16, 2:04 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGHenderson21 min
Apr 16, 2:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGHardeman33 min
Apr 16, 2:24 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGHardeman, McNairy51 min
Apr 16, 2:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGHenderson21 min
Apr 16, 3:03 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGHardin47 min
Apr 16, 4:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGHardin, McNairy49 min
Apr 16, 4:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGChester35 min
Apr 16, 4:35 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGChester35 min
Apr 16, 4:36 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGHardin34 min
Apr 16, 4:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGHenderson34 min
Apr 16, 5:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGHardeman31 min
Apr 16, 5:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGHardin34 min
Apr 16, 5:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMcNairy33 min
Apr 16, 6:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGHardin31 min
Apr 16, 4:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGTate37 min
Apr 16, 4:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMarshall65 min
Apr 16, 4:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGTallahatchie61 min
Apr 16, 4:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGPanola35 min
Apr 16, 4:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGQuitman18 min
Apr 16, 5:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLafayette31 min
Apr 16, 5:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGBenton51 min
Apr 16, 6:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCalhoun48 min
Apr 15, 11:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGRandolph50 min
Apr 16, 12:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLawrence47 min
Apr 16, 2:16 AM CDTTornado WarningMEGGreene29 min
Apr 16, 2:36 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCraighead, Mississippi49 min
Apr 16, 2:42 AM CDTTornado WarningMEGMississippi33 min
Apr 16, 3:15 AM CDTTornado WarningMEGMississippi20 min
Apr 16, 6:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGRandolph36 min
Apr 16, 7:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGClay35 min
Apr 16, 9:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGSt. Francis46 min
Apr 16, 9:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCrittenden34 min
Apr 16, 11:05 AM CDTTornado WarningMEGPoinsett50 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.