Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 28, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Oct 18, 2004, 12:40 PM CDT for Fayette County, Tennessee. It was in force for 35 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
- Oct 18, 2004, 12:40 PM CDT (17:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 18, 2004, 1:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Fayette County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 18, 9:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 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
- 1504 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 520 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 390 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 482 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.3
- Supercell composite
- 16.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMEG 181740 TORMEM TNC047-181815- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1239 PM CDT MON OCT 18 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... FAYETTE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE * UNTIL 115 PM CDT * AT 1239 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES NORTH OF PIPERTON...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM THROUGH 115 PM CDT INCLUDE... OAKLAND...MOSCOW... ROSSVILLE...WILLISTON... .IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. PROTECT YOUR BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS. .IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT. .STAY TUNED TO THIS BROADCAST FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND INFORMATION. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY...CALL 1 800 4 3 2 0 8 7 5. LAT...LON 3525 8964 3500 8964 3501 8921 3527 8919 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 18, 11:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Shelby | 39 min |
| Oct 18, 11:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Fayette | 94 min |
| Oct 18, 12:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Shelby | 96 min |
| Oct 18, 12:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette, Shelby | 47 min |
| Oct 18, 12:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Hardeman | 89 min |
| Oct 18, 12:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Chester | 95 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.