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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Dec 24, 1988, 7:45 AM CST for Williamson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 24, 1988, 7:45 AM CST (13:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 24, 1988, 8:15 AM CST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Williamson 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, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 38 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 241345
TORBNA
TNC037-187-189-241415-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
745 AM CST SAT DEC 24 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
...EASTERN DAVIDSON...WILLIAMSON...WILSON
STATE EMERGENCY OFFICIALS REPORT A TORNADO TOUCHDOWN NEAR LIBERTY PIKE
AT THE HILL GARDEN APARTMENTS IN WILLIAMSON COUNTY. RADAR IN NASHVILLE
SHOWS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN DAVIDSON...MOST OF
WILLIAMSON...AND MOVING INTO EASTERN WILSON COUNTY.
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
Special weather statement, Dec 24, 6:12 AM CST, 1 hour 33 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, 9:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb | 25 min |
| Dec 24, 9:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Putnam | 30 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.