Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 19, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Apr 13, 1998, 11:16 PM CDT for Lake County, Obion County, Tennessee. It was in force for 59 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 13, 1998, 11:16 PM CDT (04:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 14, 1998, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lake County, TN, Obion County, TN
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:17 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
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 652 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 898 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
345 WFUS1 KMEM 140418 RRA TORMEM TNC095-131-140515- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1116 PM CDT MON APR 13 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 AM CDT FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST TENNESSEE ...SOUTHERN LAKE COUNTY...OBION COUNTY AT 1115 PM..RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR WYNNBURG MOVING TO THE EAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT TIPTONVILLE..WYNNBURG..HORNBEAK AND SAMBURG. .IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 13, 7:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 31 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TENNESSEE
745 PM CDT MON APR 13 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0730 PM PALATKA AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/13/98 CLAY HIGHWAY PATROL REPORTED
GOLFBALL SIZE HAILThe office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Obion | 46 min |
| Apr 13, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lake | 30 min |
| Apr 14, 12:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Weakley | 45 min |
| Apr 14, 12:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Carroll, Henry | 64 min |
| Apr 14, 12:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Gibson | 48 min |
| Apr 14, 1:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Shelby | 60 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Tennessee, 1998Every tornado warning in 1998Tornadoes 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.