Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 22, 1991, 5:53 PM CST for Hickman County, Lewis County, Tennessee. It was in force for 52 min. 2 reports 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
- Mar 22, 1991, 5:53 PM CST (23:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 1991, 6:45 PM CST
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hickman County, TN, Lewis County, TN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 5:55 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Hickman, TN | |
| Mar 22, 6:05 PM CST | Tornado F2 | Lewis, 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 728 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -233 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 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 22, 4:40 PM CST, 1 hour 13 minutes before
TNZ010-011-222345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 438 PM CST FRI MAR 22 1991 AT 430 PM CST...THE WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN NASHVILLE INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS..SEVERAL WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN..OVER THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE NEAR CLARKSVILLE AND DOVER. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE ALSO OVER SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY BETWEEN LAKE BARKLEY..HOPKINSVILLE AND BOWLING GREEN..AND.. IN WEST TENNESSEE FROM PARIS TO HUNTINGDON AND JACKSON. IN ADDITION TO HEAVY RAIN..THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING..WIND GUSTS TO 40 MILES AN HOU+R AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. ALSO...PERSONS IN MIDDLE TENNESSEEE ARE REMINDED THAT TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 56 IS EFFECT TILL 9 PM CST.
Special weather statement, Mar 22, 5:46 PM CST, 7 minutes before
TNZ009-010-011-230045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 543 PM CST FRI MAR 22 1991 AT 530 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN NASHVILLE INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS..WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN..OVER THE WESTERN PORTION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE FROM DOVER AND CLARKSVILLE..SOUTHWEST TO WAVERLY AND LINDEN. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MILES AN HOUR. IN ADDITION TO HEAVY RAIN..THESE STORMS CONTAIN DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ..POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS NEAR 40 MILES AN HOUR. ALSO...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WAS OVER MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY FROM LAKE BARKLEY TO BOWLING GREEN..AND..IN WEST TENNESSEE BETWEEN PARIS..CAMDEN AND SAVANNAH. ..TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 56 IS IN EFFECT FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE UNTIL 9 PM.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 1:21 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Jackson | 54 min |
| Mar 22, 5:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Perry, Wayne | 54 min |
| Mar 22, 5:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson | 52 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.