Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 10, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Apr 28, 2002, 2:42 AM CDT for Obion County, Tennessee. It was in force for 33 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 28, 2002, 2:42 AM CDT (07:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2002, 3:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Obion County, TN
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 3:14 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Union City, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 2:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 1817 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 653 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 480 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 529 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 6.4
- Supercell composite
- 25.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
172 WFUS54 KMEG 280742 TORMEM TNC131-280815- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 241 AM CDT SUN APR 28 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... OBION COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TENNESSEE * UNTIL 315 AM CDT. * AT 240 AM CDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF SAMBURG...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO THROUGH 315 AM CDT INCLUDE... SAMBURG... CLAYTON... WOODLAND MILLS... UNION CITY... .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 3651 8938 3634 8939 3636 8899 3652 8891
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 2:31 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lake | 29 min |
| Apr 28, 3:14 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Weakley | 46 min |
| Apr 28, 3:23 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Dyer | 52 min |
| Apr 28, 3:34 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Henry | 41 min |
| Apr 28, 3:56 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Gibson | 49 min |
| Apr 28, 4:23 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Carroll | 47 min |
| Apr 28, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Decatur | 37 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.