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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 17, 1999, 7:23 PM CST for Hardin County, Tennessee. It was in force for 62 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 17, 1999, 7:23 PM CST (01:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 17, 1999, 8:25 PM CST
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hardin County, TN
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 17, 6:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 2449 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jan 17, 2:00 PM CST, 5 hours 23 minutes before
ARZ008-009-017-018-026>028-035-036-048-049-058-MOZ113-115-MSZ001>017- 020>024-TNZ001>004-019>021-048>054-088>092-180300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 200 PM CST SUN JAN 17 1999 THIS OUTLOOK COVERS THE COUNTY WARNING AREA OF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MEMPHIS TENNESSEE..INCLUDING NORTHEAST ARKANSAS..THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL..WEST TENNESSEE..AND NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI. RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE INCREASED IN THE MIDSOUTH. MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER IS NOW CENTERED OVER MEMPHIS TENNESSEE..WITH THIS RISK EXTENDING OUT AROUND 75 MILES. A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXITS FOR THE REST OF THE MIDSOUTH. AN AREA OF STORMS IS DEVELOPING FROM NORTH CENTRAL TO SOUTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS. THESE STORMS WILL INTENSIFY AS THEY MOVE EAST THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. VERY STRONG SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS ARE FILLING THE ATMOSPHERE WITH INCREASINGLY MOIST UNSTABLE AIR. ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE ALONG WITH DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS AND LARGE HAIL UNTIL A COLD FROM PASSES THIS EVENING. STORM SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO..COMMERCIAL RADIO..TV AND CABLE TELEVISION OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST FORECASTS AND INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 17, 7:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Alcorn, Benton, Tippah | 47 min |
| Jan 17, 7:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Marshall | 47 min |
| Jan 17, 8:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tishomingo | 47 min |
| Jan 17, 8:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Panola, Quitman | 48 min |
| Jan 17, 8:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lafayette | 48 min |
| Jan 17, 9:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Benton | 35 min |
| Jan 17, 9:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tallahatchie | 47 min |
| Jan 17, 9:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Yalobusha | 48 min |
| Jan 17, 9:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Union | 47 min |
| Jan 17, 9:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Prentiss | 47 min |
| Jan 17, 10:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Pontotoc | 64 min |
| Jan 17, 10:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Yalobusha | 33 min |
| Jan 17, 10:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chickasaw | 49 min |
| Jan 17, 10:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee | 51 min |
| Jan 17, 11:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Monroe | 47 min |
| Jan 17, 11:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Monroe | 33 min |
| Jan 17, 6:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette | 64 min |
| Jan 17, 6:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Madison | 47 min |
| Jan 17, 6:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Crockett, Gibson | 36 min |
| Jan 17, 6:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Weakley | 48 min |
| Jan 17, 6:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardeman | 47 min |
| Jan 17, 6:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Carroll, Henry | 49 min |
| Jan 17, 6:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Fayette | 37 min |
| Jan 17, 6:35 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Henderson | 50 min |
| Jan 17, 6:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Carroll | 47 min |
| Jan 17, 6:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chester | 35 min |
| Jan 17, 6:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Hardeman | 47 min |
| Jan 17, 6:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Shelby | 50 min |
| Jan 17, 6:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | McNairy | 62 min |
| Jan 17, 7:01 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Chester, McNairy | 49 min |
| Jan 17, 7:38 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Hardeman, McNairy | 3 hr |
| Jan 17, 7:38 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Fayette | 3 hr |
| Jan 17, 7:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Hardin | 47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.