Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Watches in 1998
Tornado Watch 579
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 14, 1998, 4:00 PM CDT for 6 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 1998, 4:00 PM CDT (21:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1998, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 93 counties
Colbert County, AL, Jackson County, AL, Lauderdale County, AL, Limestone County, AL, Madison County, AL, Clay County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Greene County, AR, Independence County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Lee County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Randolph County, AR, Sharp County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Allen County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Fulton County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Dunklin County, MO, New Madrid County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO, Alcorn County, MS, Benton County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS, Tunica County, MS, Bedford County, TN, Benton County, TN, Cannon County, TN, Carroll County, TN, Cheatham County, TN, Chester County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Crockett County, TN, Davidson County, TN, Decatur County, TN, DeKalb County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Dyer County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Franklin County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Giles County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Hardeman County, TN, Hardin County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Henderson County, TN, Henry County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Lake County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Lincoln County, TN, Macon County, TN, Madison County, TN, Marion County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Moore County, TN, Obion County, TN, Perry County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Smith County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Tipton County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Warren County, TN, Wayne County, TN, Weakley County, TN, Williamson County, TN, Wilson County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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Warnings issued inside it
28 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Clay | 45 min |
| Jun 14, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Dunklin, Pemiscot | 46 min |
| Jun 14, 5:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Pemiscot | 30 min |
| Jun 14, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Prairie | 48 min |
| Jun 14, 5:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lake | 34 min |
| Jun 14, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | New Madrid | 37 min |
| Jun 14, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Obion | 48 min |
| Jun 14, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Monroe | 52 min |
| Jun 14, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Weakley | 32 min |
| Jun 14, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee | 47 min |
| Jun 14, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Weakley | 31 min |
| Jun 14, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Fulton | 62 min |
| Jun 14, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Henry | 49 min |
| Jun 14, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton | 61 min |
| Jun 14, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Weakley | 48 min |
| Jun 14, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Calloway | 48 min |
| Jun 14, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Henry | 48 min |
| Jun 14, 8:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Henry | 34 min |
| Jun 14, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Humphreys | 49 min |
| Jun 14, 8:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Benton | 49 min |
| Jun 14, 8:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Dickson, Humphreys | 34 min |
| Jun 14, 9:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Humphreys | 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 |
| Jun 14, 9:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Benton, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys | 3 hr |
| Jun 14, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham | 49 min |
| Jun 14, 9:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Humphreys | 47 min |
| Jun 14, 9:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cheatham | 33 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 1231 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -275 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 989 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 240 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 9:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Crawford, Washington | 6 hr |
| Jun 14, 2:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay | 7 hr |
| Jun 14, 6:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Livingston | 6 hr |
| Jun 14, 10:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Bell, Clinton, Cumberland and 12 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 14, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Crittenden, Fulton and 8 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 14, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Barren, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Butler, Caldwell and 29 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 13, 8:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Clinton, DeKalb, Gentry and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 14, 1:15 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Andrew, Atchison, Audrain, Buchanan, Caldwell and 30 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 14, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Knox, Schuyler, Scotland | 6 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Tennessee, 1998Tornado Watches in Arkansas, 1998Tornado Watches in Mississippi, 1998Every tornado watch 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.