Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 58, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Jun 14, 1998, 1:13 AM CDT for Dyer County, Tennessee. It was in force for 32 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
- Jun 14, 1998, 1:13 AM CDT (06:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1998, 1:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dyer County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:12 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 1:15 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Newbern, TN | Several large tree limbs were blown down. |
| Jun 14, 1:40 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Dyersburg, 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
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 4433 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1215 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 7.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
779 WFUS1 KMEM 140612 RRA TORMEM TNC045-140645- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 113 AM CDT SUN JUN 14 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN DYER COUNTY IN WESTERN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 145 AM CDT * AT 110 AM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF DYERSBURG OR 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF NEWBERN MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THIS TORNADO WILL AFFECT AREA NEAR NEWBERN. .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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 12:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Dyer | 32 min |
| Jun 14, 1:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Obion | 34 min |
| Jun 14, 1:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Gibson | 45 min |
| Jun 14, 2:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Carroll | 42 min |
| Jun 14, 5:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lake | 34 min |
| Jun 14, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Obion | 48 min |
| Jun 14, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Weakley | 32 min |
| Jun 14, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Weakley | 31 min |
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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.