Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 65, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Nov 10, 1998, 8:46 AM CST for Henry County, Tennessee. It was in force for 19 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
- Nov 10, 1998, 8:46 AM CST (14:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 10, 1998, 9:05 AM CST
- In force
- 19 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Henry County, TN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 9:00 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Buchanan, TN | A few large trees were blown down. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 6:15 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 2.8 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1091 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 448 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 547 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMEM 101445 RRA TORMEM TNC079-101505- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 846 AM CST TUE NOV 10 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN HENRY COUNTY IN WESTERN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 905 AM CST * AT 845 AM CST... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR BUCHANAN MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. AVOID WINDOWS AND DOORS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDIER BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 6:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Shelby | 47 min |
| Nov 10, 6:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Dyer, Lauderdale, Tipton | 46 min |
| Nov 10, 6:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lake, Obion | 46 min |
| Nov 10, 7:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette, Haywood | 47 min |
| Nov 10, 7:32 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crockett, Gibson | 33 min |
| Nov 10, 7:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Weakley | 32 min |
| Nov 10, 7:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardeman, Madison | 50 min |
| Nov 10, 8:02 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Hardeman, Madison | 33 min |
| Nov 10, 8:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Henry | 47 min |
| Nov 10, 8:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chester | 32 min |
| Nov 10, 8:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Carroll | 50 min |
| Nov 10, 8:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Henderson | 51 min |
| Nov 10, 8:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | McNairy | 51 min |
| Nov 10, 8:40 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Madison | 20 min |
| Nov 10, 8:52 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Henderson | 33 min |
| Nov 10, 9:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardin | 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.