Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 12, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Jun 27, 2001, 1:09 PM CDT for Dyer County, Tennessee. It was in force for 51 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 27, 2001, 1:09 PM CDT (18:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2001, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Dyer County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 1:15 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Unionville, TN | A second tornado touched down near the town of Unionville. This tornado also was on the ground for about one-quarter of a mile and produced some crop damage. |
| Jun 27, 1:25 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Dyersburg, 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 nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 1429 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1344 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMEG 271809 TORMEM TNC045-271900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 109 PM CDT WED JUN 27 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DYER COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TENNESSEE * UNTIL 200 PM CDT. * AT 104 PM CDT...A TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO JUST SOUTHWEST OF DYERSBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO THROUGH 200 PM CDT INCLUDE... DYERSBURG... MILLSFIELD... NEWBERN... .IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. PROTECT YOUR BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS. .STAY TUNED TO THIXS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROADCAST FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND INFORMATION. LAT...LON 3603 8960 3590 8944 3610 8915 3623 8934
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 12:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Henry, Weakley | 34 min |
| Jun 27, 1:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Weakley | 57 min |
| Jun 27, 1:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Obion | 55 min |
| Jun 27, 2:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Henry | 46 min |
| Jun 27, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Dyer | 38 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.