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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Nashville, TN

May 9, 1988Humphreys County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 1988, 7:16 PM CDT for Humphreys County, Tennessee. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 9, 1988, 7:16 PM CDT (00:16 UTC)
Expired
May 9, 1988, 8:15 PM CDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Humphreys 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, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 106 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 1988-05-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 318 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 1988-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 146 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
318 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2283 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
146 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
298 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.8

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 9, 7:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXHouston, Montgomery, Robertson59 min
May 9, 7:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXWilson59 min
May 9, 8:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDavidson, Wilson48 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.