Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 50, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at May 7, 1998, 2:41 AM CDT for Tipton County, Tennessee. It was in force for 34 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
- May 7, 1998, 2:41 AM CDT (07:41 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 1998, 3:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tipton County, TN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 2:50 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, TN | Several trees were knocked down across the county. One tree fell on two cars in Covington. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 10:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 76 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
- 2412 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 918 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
002 WFUS1 KMEM 070746 TORMEM TNC167-070815- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTED TO ADD MOVEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 241 AM CDT THU MAY 7 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... TIPTON COUNTY IN WESTERN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 315 AM CDT * AT 240 AM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR MUNFORD MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... MASON BY 255 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 1:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lauderdale | 36 min |
| May 7, 3:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette | 35 min |
| May 7, 3:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | McNairy | 36 min |
| May 7, 3:20 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Hardin, McNairy | 35 min |
| May 7, 3:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardeman | 47 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.