Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 9, 1990, 9:34 PM CST for Lincoln County, Tennessee. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 9, 1990, 9:34 PM CST (03:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 9, 1990, 10:15 PM CST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lincoln 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, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 589 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 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 100337
SVRBNA
TNC103-100415-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
934 PM CST FRI FEB 9 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
...LINCOLN
RADAR SHOWS A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN WESTERN LINCOLN COUNTY MOVING
NORTHEAST AT NEARLY 50 MPH. THE COMMUNITY OF FAYETTEVILLE IS LIKELY
TO BE AFFECTED. THIS IS THE SAME STORM THAT PRODUCED LARGE HAIL IN
ALABAMA.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAV7Y RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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, Feb 9, 7:30 PM CST, 2 hours 4 minutes before
TNZ007>011-100315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 730 PM CST FRI FEB 9 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS AND GUSTY WINDS OVER THE MID STATE... A COLD FRONT IS MOVING ACROSS THE MIDDLE SECTION OF TENNESSEE THIS EVENING AND IS PRODUCING SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AND STRONG WINDS. AT 725 PM NASHVILLE RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS FROM SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY NEAR BOWLING GREEN THROUGH NASHVILLE AND INTO SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE. SOME OF THE STORMS ARE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN. AS THE COLD FRONT PASSES WINDS ARE GUSTING OVER 30 MPH. NASHVILLE AIRPORT HAD A WIND GUST TO 37 MPH AT 715 PM. RESIDENTS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE FROM NASHVILLE EAST TO THE PLATEAU AND SOUTH TO THE ALABAMA STATE LINE CAN EXPECT THESE WINDS TO DEVELOP BEFORE MIDNIGHT AS THE FRONT MOVES THROUGH. . THE RAIN SHOULD END SATURDAY MORNING OVER MIDDLE TENNESSEE WITH A COOLDER WEEKEND IN STORE. OF INTEREST TO FARMERS AND GARDENERS... THE TEMPERATURE IS EXPECTED TO DROP BELOW FREEZING SATURDAY NIGHT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 9, 8:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence | 48 min |
| Feb 9, 10:22 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Franklin | 28 min |
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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.