Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 61, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Jun 14, 1998, 8:36 PM CDT for Henry County, Tennessee. It was in force for 34 min. 3 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, 8:36 PM CDT (01:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1998, 9:10 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Henry County, TN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 8:40 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Paris, TN | A few trees were blown down in downtown Paris. |
| Jun 14, 9:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Paris, TN | Several trees were knocked down. |
| Jun 14, 9:00 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Paris, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 3344 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 936 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 451 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 509 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 11.0
- Supercell composite
- 67.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMEM 150135 RRA TORMEM TNC079-150210- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 836 PM CDT SUN JUN 14 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HENRY COUNTY IN WESTERN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 910 PM CDT * AT 834 PM CDT... STORM SPOTTERS SIGHTED AND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 5 MILES WEST OF PARIS MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THIS TORNADO WILL PASS NEAR... PARIS 840 PM CDT SPRINGVILLE BY 850 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Henry | 49 min |
| Jun 14, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Weakley | 48 min |
| Jun 14, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Henry | 48 min |
| Jun 14, 9:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Henry, Weakley | 2 hr |
| Jun 14, 9:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Obion | 2 hr |
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.