Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 2002, 8:49 PM CDT for Shelby County, Tennessee; Crittenden County, Arkansas. It was in force for 56 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 24, 2002, 8:49 PM CDT (01:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 2002, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Crittenden County, AR, Shelby County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:49 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 57 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
- 1586 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1113 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 4.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KMEG 250149 SVRMEM ARC035-TNC157-250245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 848 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CRITTENDEN COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS SHELBY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE * UNTIL 945 PM CDT. * AT 845 PM CDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GILMORE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM THROUGH 945 PM CDT INCLUDE... TURRELL... GILMORE... JERICHO... MEMPHIS... FRAYSER... MILLINGTON... ELLENDALE... BARTLETT... LAKELAND... .A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. PREPARE TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. .DESTRUCTIVE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...MOVE TO A STURDY SHELTER LAT...LON 3546 9044 3529 9050 3506 8963 3533 8964
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Obion | 32 min |
| Apr 24, 7:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Dyer, Lake | 27 min |
| Apr 24, 8:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Dyer | 29 min |
| Apr 24, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Carroll | 29 min |
| Apr 24, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crockett, Gibson, Madison | 37 min |
| Apr 24, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crockett, Gibson, Madison | 33 min |
| Apr 24, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Shelby | 48 min |
| Apr 24, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Carroll, Haywood, Henderson, Madison | 49 min |
| Apr 24, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chester, Decatur | 39 min |
| Apr 24, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardin, McNairy | 65 min |
| Apr 24, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Craighead, Poinsett | 34 min |
| Apr 24, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Poinsett | 45 min |
| Apr 24, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee | 49 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002
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.