Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 1988
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Nov 4, 1988, 6:09 PM CST for Giles County, Marshall County, Tennessee. It was in force for 36 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 4, 1988, 6:09 PM CST (00:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 4, 1988, 6:45 PM CST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Giles County, TN, Marshall 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, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 133 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 688 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 377 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 408 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KBNA 050011
TORBNA
TNC055-117-050045-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
609 PM CST FRI NOV 4 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
...NORTHEASTERN GILES...MARSHALL
THE PUBLIC REPORTS A FUNNEL CLOUD 22 MILES NORTH OF THE
ALABAMA-TENNESSEE STATE LINE ALONG INTERSTATE 65. THIS WOULD BE IN
NORTHEAST GILES COUNTY TENNESSEE. THE STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST
AND WILL ENTER MARSHALL COUNTY IN THE NEXT HALF HOUR.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.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
Local storm report, Nov 4, 4:32 PM CST, 1 hour 37 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE, TN
431 PM CST FRI NOV 04 1988
415 PM CST...WAYNE COUNTY SHERRIFF REPORTS TREES DOWN AND A
FUNNEL CLOUD SIGHTED NEAR WAYNESBORO TENNLocal storm report, Nov 4, 4:53 PM CST, 1 hour 16 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE, TN
452 PM CST FRI NOV 04 1988
435 PM CST...MONTGOMERY COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTS ROOF BLOWN OFF AN
UNKNOWN STRUCTURE ALONG HWY 48 SOUTH OF CLARKSVI-LLE.Local storm report, Nov 4, 5:48 PM CST, 21 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE, TN
546 PM CST FRI NOV 04 1988
520 PM CST...ROBERTSON COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTS A LARGE TREE DOWN
AND THE ROOF BLOWN OFF OF A SMALL METAL BUILDINGi
IN THE EASTERN PART OF THE COUNTY...LOCATIONS SKETCHY
545 PM CST...METRO NASHVILLE POLICE REPORT NUMEROUS TREES DOWN IN
THE SHELBY PARK AREA OF NASHVILLE.Local storm report, Nov 4, 5:56 PM CST, 13 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE, TN
554 PM CST FRI NOV 04 1988
545 PM CST...SUMNER COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTS TREES BLOWN DOWN
AROUND THE COUNTY...NEAR DRAKES CREEK AND CARTER
t RIDGE ROADSNearby
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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.