Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 1988
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Nov 4, 1988, 4:24 PM CST for Wayne County, Tennessee. It was in force for 36 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 4, 1988, 4:24 PM CST (22:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 4, 1988, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wayne 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KBNA 042226
TORBNA
TNC181-042300-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
424 PM CST FRI NOV 4 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
...CENTRAL WAYNE
AT 415 PM THIS AFTERNOON THE WAYNE COUNTY SHERIFF OFFICE REPORTED
WIND DAMAGE AND A FUNNEL CLOUD SOUTHEAST OF WAYNESBORO. RADAR
IN NASHVILLE INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO IN CENTRAL WAYNE COUNTY
MOVING NORTHEAST.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH
OR LOW SPOT AND
COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 27 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 4, 4:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Montgomery, Robertson | 48 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
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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.