A bomb threat at the Dyersburg Wal-Mart on Thursday afternoon "appears to have been bogus," Dyersburg authorities said late Thursday afternoon.

The call-in threat was made to the store, located at 2650 Lake Road, shortly before 1 p.m. and halted business at the store while forcing employees and customers to evacuate the premises for nearly an hour, said Tom Williams, spokesperson for the store.

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"There was an orderly evacuation at the Dyersburg store," Williams said. "However, nothing was found and business is open."

After the Dyersburg Police Department received the alert shortly after the call was made, drones of police and investigators' cars inundated the parking lot, while hundreds of bystanders watched the incident unfold.

"We conducted a search," said Don Newell, capt. of the Dyersburg Criminal Investigation Division. "We were unable to find anything."

The scare comes only a week after a hostage situation at the Dyersburg State Community College that resulted in the death of the gunman and bullet injuries to two students.

Thursday's incident marks the second bomb threat situation directed towards the Dyersburg Wal-Mart in the past two months. An investigation to a threat made on July 17 is still ongoing, authorities said.