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Tornado Warning 37, NWS Memphis, TN

April 27, 1998Carroll County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Apr 27, 1998, 6:36 PM CDT for Carroll County, Tennessee. It was in force for 49 min. 2 reports 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 27, 1998, 6:36 PM CDT (23:36 UTC)
Expired: Apr 27, 1998, 7:25 PM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Carroll County, TN

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 27, 6:50 PM CDT	Hail 2.75	Huntingdon, TN	At least 1,000 homes were damaged by the baseball size hail. The hail accumulated as much as two feet in some areas.
Apr 27, 7:16 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Westport, TN

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 nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 167 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 85 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 818 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMEM 272336 RRA
TORMEM
TNC017-280025-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
636 PM CDT MON APR 27 1998


THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CARROLL COUNTY IN WESTERN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 725 PM CDT

* AT 636 PM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 10
  MILES WEST OF HUNTINGDON MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  HUNTINGDON BY 650 PM CDT

.IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO
BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SAFETY IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A
CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...OR CUSHIONS TO
COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 27, 3:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Dyer	35 min
Apr 27, 4:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Dyer	47 min
Apr 27, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Fayette	48 min
Apr 27, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Gibson	47 min
Apr 27, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Shelby	51 min
Apr 27, 5:51 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Fayette	2 hr
Apr 27, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Fayette	47 min
Apr 27, 6:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Carroll, Gibson	49 min
Apr 27, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lake	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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.