Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 27, 1991, 6:57 PM CST for Giles County, Lincoln County, Tennessee. It was in force for 48 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 27, 1991, 6:57 PM CST (00:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 1991, 7:45 PM CST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Giles County, TN, Lincoln County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 108 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1079 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Mar 27, 2:41 PM CST, 4 hours 16 minutes before
TNZ007-008-009-010-011-272145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 238 PM CST WED MAR 27 1991 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES FOR PARTS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE... AT 230 PM CST...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED FROM EAST OF HOPKINSVILLE IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY THROUGH THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE TO NORTH OF SAVANNAH IN MIDDLTENNESSEE. THUNDERSTORMS3 WERE ALSO SCATTERED ACROSS WEST TENNESSEE...WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Mar 27, 3:39 PM CST, 3 hours 18 minutes before
TNZ007-008-009-010-011-272145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 330 PM CST WED MAR 27 1991 ...A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES FOR PARTS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE... AT 330 PM CST...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED OVER MIDDLE TENNESSEE AND SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY FROM LINDEN TENNESSEE TO NEAR BOWLING GREEN KENTUCKY. THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO SCATTERED ACROSS WEST TENNESSEE...WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY. HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WERE REPORTED IN ROBERTSON COUNTY DURING THE LAST FEW MINUTES. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Mar 27, 4:39 PM CST, 2 hours 18 minutes before
TNZ007-008-009-010-011-272145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 430 PM CST WED MAR 27 1991 ...A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE... AT 430 PM CST...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED FROM FRANKLIN THROUGH THE NASHVILLE AREA TO NEAR BOWLING GREEN KENTUCKY. WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND THE WESTERN HALF OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 6:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon, DeKalb, Rutherford | 57 min |
| Mar 27, 6:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Warren, White | 42 min |
| Mar 27, 6:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Putnam | 42 min |
| Mar 27, 8:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Franklin, Lincoln | 47 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.