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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Nashville, TN

November 4, 1988Montgomery County, Robertson County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 4, 1988, 4:42 PM CST for Montgomery County, Robertson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 48 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 4, 1988, 4:42 PM CST (22:42 UTC)
Expired: Nov 4, 1988, 5:30 PM CST
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Montgomery County, TN, 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 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 63 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 989 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 221 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 242 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, Nov 4, 10:57 AM CST, 5 hours 45 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1100 AM CST FRI NOV 4 1988

..SEVERE WEATHER POSSIBLE IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE TODAY AND TONIGHT...

THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER IN KANSAS CITY MISSOURI IS
FORECASTING AN OUTBREAK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES TODAY INTO
TONIGHT OVER MUCH OF THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY AND TENNESSEE VALLEY.

MIDDLE TENNESSEE WILL HAVE A CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY
THROUGH TONIGHT AS A DEEPENING STORM SYSTEM MOVES THROUGH THE UPPER
MISSISSIPPI VALLEY.  THE AREA WITH THE GREATEST THREAT OF SEVERE STORMS
AROUND MIDDLE TENNESSEE WILL BE SOUTHERN PORTIONS NEAR THE ALABAMA
STATE LINE...HOWEVER ALL AREAS WILL HAVE SOME POTENTIAL.

ALONG WITH THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...GUSTY SURFACE WINDS
AND SOME HEAVY RAINS ARE FORECAST.  WINDS WILL BE GUSTING TO 35 MPH
AND SAOME GUSTS OVER 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE.  FOR THIS REASON THERE IS A
LAKE WIND ADVISORY FOR THE BOATERS AND FISHERMEN.   RAINFALL AMOUNTS
COULD BE AS HIGH AS 2 INCHES IN SOME AREAS BY SATURDAY MORNING.
.
STAY TUNED TO RADIO...TV...OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST
INFORMATION ON THIS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION.

Local storm report, Nov 4, 4:32 PM CST, 10 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 4, 4:24 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Wayne	36 min
Nov 4, 5:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson, Sumner	51 min
Nov 4, 5:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson	54 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.