Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 15, 1989, 1:26 PM CST for Montgomery County, Stewart County, Tennessee. It was in force for 49 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 15, 1989, 1:26 PM CST (19:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 15, 1989, 2:15 PM CST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Montgomery County, TN, Stewart County, TN
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 15, 1:48 PM CST | Hail 1 | Montgomery, TN |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 475 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 684 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 15, 1:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman, Maury | 50 min |
| Nov 15, 5:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Warren, White | 35 min |
| Nov 15, 5:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Coffee, Franklin | 35 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.