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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Nov 9, 2002, 10:23 PM CST for Carroll County, Madison County, Tennessee. It was in force for 37 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 9, 2002, 10:23 PM CST (04:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 9, 2002, 11:00 PM CST
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Carroll County, TN, Madison County, TN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 10:26 PM CST | Tornado F2 | Terry, TN | The tornado touched down near the town of Terry and tracked northeast. The tornado hit a mobile home park near the town of Leach. Two persons were killed in one of mobile homes in the park. Three houses, two businesses and a farm building were destroyed. Fort |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 6:20 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 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
- 1221 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 892 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 349 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 448 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.9
- Supercell composite
- 12.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
717 WFUS54 KMEG 100423 TORMEM TNC017-113-100500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1023 PM CST SAT NOV 9 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TENNESSEE NORTHERN MADISON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE * UNTIL 1100 PM CST. * AT 1020 PM CST...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF FAIRVIEW...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO THROUGH 1100 PM CST INCLUDE... SPRING CREEK... CEDAR GROVE... .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. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY...CALL 1 800 4 3 2 0 8 7 5.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 9:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crockett, Haywood | 42 min |
| Nov 9, 9:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Crockett, Haywood | 49 min |
| Nov 9, 10:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Tipton | 30 min |
| Nov 9, 10:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Gibson | 33 min |
| Nov 9, 10:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lauderdale, Tipton | 34 min |
| Nov 9, 10:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Haywood, Lauderdale, Tipton | 41 min |
| Nov 9, 10:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Carroll | 37 min |
| Nov 9, 11:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Obion | 38 min |
| Nov 9, 11:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Haywood, Madison | 36 min |
| Nov 9, 11:27 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Obion | 33 min |
| Nov 9, 11:36 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Tipton | 114 min |
| Nov 9, 11:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Crockett | 21 min |
| Nov 9, 11:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Crockett, Madison | 36 min |
| Nov 10, 12:22 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Carroll, Henderson, Madison | 23 min |
| Nov 10, 12:39 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Carroll, Henderson | 51 min |
| Nov 10, 3:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crockett, Lauderdale | 35 min |
| Nov 10, 3:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Haywood, Tipton | 34 min |
| Nov 10, 4:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Gibson | 27 min |
| Nov 10, 4:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette, Shelby | 46 min |
| Nov 10, 4:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Haywood | 30 min |
| Nov 10, 4:40 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Tipton | 80 min |
| Nov 10, 4:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lake, Obion | 33 min |
| Nov 10, 5:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette, Shelby | 36 min |
| Nov 10, 5:10 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Shelby | 110 min |
| Nov 10, 5:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Madison | 43 min |
| Nov 10, 5:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Carroll | 34 min |
| Nov 10, 5:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette, Hardeman | 46 min |
| Nov 10, 5:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Chester, Madison | 41 min |
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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.