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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Nashville, TN

June 26, 1988Montgomery County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1988, 3:29 PM CDT for Montgomery County, Tennessee. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 26, 1988, 3:29 PM CDT (20:29 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 1988, 4:30 PM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Montgomery 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 81 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 427 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -185 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1748 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -14 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KBNA 262035
SVRBNA
TNC125-262130-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
329 PM CDT SUN JUN 26 1988
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  430 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
          ...MONTGOMERY
 
AT 330 THIS AFTERNOON RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR FORT
CAMBELL KENTUCKY. THIS STORM IS MOVGING TO THE SOUTHEAST 20 MPH AND
WILL BE ENTERING MONTGOMERY COUNTY SHORTLY.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

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 26, 2:45 PM CDT, 44 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  NASHVILLE TN
240 PM CDT SUN JUN 26 1988

 AT 235 THIS AFTERNOON THE NASHVILLE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM
5 MILES NORTHEAST OF SPRINGFIELD IN CENTRAL ROBERTSON COUNTY.

THIS THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS
AND SMALL HAIL AS IT MOVES TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 26, 3:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson, Robertson, Sumner	69 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 1988 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1988

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.