Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Apr 28, 2002, 3:34 AM CDT for Henry County, Tennessee. It was in force for 41 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, 3:34 AM CDT (08:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2002, 4:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Henry County, TN
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:36 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, 4:00 AM CDT | Tornado F0 | Whitlock, TN | The tornado touched down near the town of Whitlock and move southeast. Three tall transmission towers were destroyed. Twenty homes were damaged. Several trees and power lines were blown down. |
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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 833 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 372 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 488 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 280834 TORMEM TNC079-280915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 334 AM CDT SUN APR 28 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN HENRY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TENNESSEE * UNTIL 415 AM CDT. * AT 332 AM CDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF COTTAGE GROVE...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO THROUGH 415 AM CDT INCLUDE... COTTAGE GROVE... PURYEAR... .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 8852 3630 8852 3631 8811 3651 8807
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, 2:42 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Obion | 33 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, 3:56 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.