Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 16, 1987, 8:15 PM CST for Robertson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 16, 1987, 8:15 PM CST (02:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 16, 1987, 9:15 PM CST
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Robertson 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 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 50 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 918 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 317 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 326 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 16, 8:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Williamson | 60 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.