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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Nashville, TN

May 24, 1986Davidson County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at May 24, 1986, 5:25 PM CDT for Davidson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 35 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 24, 1986, 5:25 PM CDT (22:25 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 1986, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Davidson County, TN

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 17 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1986-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1408 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1986-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 19 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1408 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
717 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
141 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
4.6

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The text

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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.