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Tornado Warning 62, NWS Memphis, TN

July 30, 1998Dyer County, Tennessee; Pemiscot County, Missouri

NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Jul 30, 1998, 3:06 AM CDT for Dyer County, Tennessee; Pemiscot County, Missouri. It was in force for 29 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: Jul 30, 1998, 3:06 AM CDT (08:06 UTC)
Expired: Jul 30, 1998, 3:35 AM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Pemiscot County, MO, Dyer County, TN

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 30, 3:15 AM CDT	Tornado F0	Caruthersville, MO	A tornado briefly touched producing little damage.

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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 149 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: 2265 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1731 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 154 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.2

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The text

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

630 
WFUS1 KMEM 300805 RRA
TORMEM
MOC155-TNC045-300835-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
306 AM CDT THU JUL 30 1998


THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN PEMISCOT COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN MISSOURI
  DYER COUNTY IN WESTERN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 335 AM CDT

* AT 302 AM CDT... STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED A POSSIBLE TORNADO TWO
MILES SOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI BRIDGE NEAR CARUTHERSVILLE MOVING TO
THE EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR EASTERN CARUTHERSVILLE BY 310
AM...THEN MOVE ACROSS THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER INTO DYER COUNTY.

.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.



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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 30, 2:46 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Crockett, Dyer, Gibson, Lauderdale	4 hr
Jul 30, 2:46 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Lake, Obion	4 hr
Jul 30, 2:46 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Weakley	4 hr
Jul 30, 3:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lauderdale	34 min
Jul 30, 2:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Dunklin, Pemiscot	51 min
Jul 30, 2:32 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Dunklin, Pemiscot	2 hr
Jul 30, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Dunklin	50 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.