Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1987, 1:57 PM CDT for Davidson County, Rutherford County, Williamson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 21, 1987, 1:57 PM CDT (18:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 1987, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Davidson County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Williamson 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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 20 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
- 1347 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 587 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KBNA 211857
SVRBNA
TNC037-149-187-212000-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
157 PM CDT SUN JUN 21 1987
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
...DAVIDSON...RUTHERFORD...WILLIAMSON
RADAR INDICATES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM APPROACHING THE NASHVILLE
METRO AREA AND ALSO THE CITY OF FRANKLIN MOVING NORTHEAST AT
30 MILES AN HOUR.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND
DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOZVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 8:45 AM CDT, 5 hours 12 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 840 AM CDT SUN JUN 21 1987 ...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING NASHVILLE FROM THE WEST... NASHVILLE WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SOLID LINE OF HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM SPRINGFIELD IN NORTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE SOUTHWEST ACROSS ASHLAND CITY..DICKSON..TO NEAR PARSONS IN WEST TENNESSEE JUST WEST OF LINDEN. THE STRONGEST ACTIVITY WAS JUST WEST OF NASHVILLE NEAR ASHLAND CITY IN CHEATHAM COUNTY. RADAR INDICATES THESE STORMS TO BE BELOW SEVERE LIMITS BUT GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING MAY BE EXPECTED TO ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS AS MOVE EASTWARD THROUGH MIDDLE TENNESSEE.
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 9:45 AM CDT, 4 hours 12 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 945 AM CDT SUN JUN 21 1987 ...THUNDERSTORMS IN THE NASHVILLE METROPOLITAN AREA... NASHVILLE WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SOLID LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM BOWLING GREEN KENTUCKY SOUTHWEST ACROSS NASHVILLE TENNESSEE TO NEAR LINDEN TENNESSEE. THE STRONGEST ACTIVITY WAS IN SUMNER COUNTY AROUND PORTLAND AND BETHPAGE. RADAR INDICATES THESE STORMS TO BE BELOW SEVERE LIMITS BUT GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING MAY BE EXPECTED TO ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE EASTWARD THROUGH MIDDLE TENNESSEE.
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 1:45 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 130 PM CDT SUN JUN 21 1987 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN DICKSON..EASTERN HICKMAN AND WESTERN WILLIAMSON COUNTIES OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE... NASHVILLE WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN THE COMMUMITIES OF DICKSON..LYLES..BON AQUA..CRAIGFIELD AND WATER VALLEY ALL ABOUT 20 MILES WEST AND SOUTHWEST OF NASHVILLE. RADAR INDICATES THESE STORMS TO BE BELOW SEVERE LIMITS BUT GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING MAY BE EXPECTED TO ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST TOWARD NASHVILLE..FRANKLIN AND KINGSTON SPRINGS TENNESSEE AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE ENGAGED IN OUTSIDE ACTIVITIES, ESPECIALLY BOATERS ON AREA LAKES SHOULD PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SHELTER IF NECESSARY. THE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL CONTINUE IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON AND POSSIBLY INTO THE EARALY EVENING.
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 1987Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1987
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.