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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Nashville, TN

March 5, 1989Davidson County, Sumner County, Wilson County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 5, 1989, 1:17 AM CST for Davidson County, Sumner County, Wilson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 5, 1989, 1:17 AM CST (07:17 UTC)
Expired
Mar 5, 1989, 2:15 AM CST
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Davidson County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Wilson 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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 17 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 1989-03-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1989-03-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 229 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
529 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
229 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
295 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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
Mar 4, 11:15 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXHickman, Humphreys, Perry45 min
Mar 5, 12:04 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXHickman, Humphreys, Perry56 min
Mar 5, 12:04 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDickson, Houston56 min
Mar 5, 7:14 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningOHXBedford, Rutherford3 hr
Mar 5, 7:14 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningOHXWilson3 hr
Mar 5, 3:21 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningOHXGiles4 hr
Mar 5, 4:14 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningOHXCoffee, Franklin, Warren3 hr

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.