Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 27, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Nov 27, 2001, 12:17 AM CST for Madison County, Tennessee. It was in force for 23 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 27, 2001, 12:17 AM CST (06:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 27, 2001, 12:40 AM CST
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Madison County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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 26, 11:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 617 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 462 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 189 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
957 WFUS54 KMEG 270618 TORMEM TNC113-270640- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1217 AM CST TUE NOV 27 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MADISON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE * UNTIL 1240 AM CST. * AT 1215 AM CST...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR JACKSON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO THROUGH 1240 AM CST INCLUDE... JACKSON... FAIRVIEW... SPRING CREEK... .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 THIS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROADCAST FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND INFORMATION. LAT...LON 3568 8898 3554 8884 3561 8859 3584 8868
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 26, 9:11 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Tipton | 2 hr |
| Nov 26, 11:09 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Henry | 51 min |
| Nov 26, 11:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardeman, Haywood, Madison | 52 min |
| Nov 27, 12:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chester, McNairy | 47 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Tennessee, 2001Every tornado warning in 2001Tornadoes in 2001
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.