Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 24, 1988, 9:15 AM CST for Putnam County, Tennessee. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 24, 1988, 9:15 AM CST (15:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 24, 1988, 9:45 AM CST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Putnam 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, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 155 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 659 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 587 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 670 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KBNA 241516
SVRBNA
TNC141-241545-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
915 AM CST SAT DEC 24 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
...PUTNAM
RADAR INDICATES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO SOUTHWESTERN
PUTNAM COUNTY IN THE VICINITY OF CENTER HILL LAKE. THE STORM WAS
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH AND MAY AFFECT COOKEVILLE IN THE NEXT 15
MINUTES
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.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, Dec 24, 6:12 AM CST, 3 hours 3 minutes before
KBNA 241212 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 610 AM CST SAT DEC 24 1988 ...TORNADO WATCH EXTENDED UNTIL NOON CST TODAY... THE TORNADO WATCH FOR MOST OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL 12 NOON CST. THE MIDDLE TENNESSEE COUNTIES INLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE BEDFORD... CHEATHAM...CLAY...DAVIDSON...DICKSON...GILES...HICKMAN...HOUSTON... HUMPHREYS...JACKSON...LAWRENCE...LEWIS...MACON...MARSHALL...MAURY. ..MONTGOMERY...PERRY...ROBERTSON...RUTHERFORD...SMITH...STEWART... SUMNER...TROUSDALE...WAYNE...WILLIAMSON AND WILSON. AT 605 AM RADAR IN NASHVILLE SHOWED A LARGE AREA OF LIGHT RAIN OVER MIDDLE TENNESSEE. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS FROM EASTERN SUMNER COUNTY NEAR BETHPAGE THROUGH THE METRO NASHVILLE AREA TO NEAR CENTERVILLE. SO FAR THESE STORMS HAVE NOT PRODUCED ANY SEVERE WEATHER. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR UPDATED WEATHER INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 24, 7:08 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson, Williamson | 37 min |
| Dec 24, 7:19 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Wilson | 41 min |
| Dec 24, 7:45 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson, Wilson | 30 min |
| Dec 24, 7:45 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Williamson | 30 min |
| Dec 24, 9:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb | 25 min |
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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.