Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 10, 1992, 2:02 AM CST for Warren County, Tennessee. It was in force for 28 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 10, 1992, 2:02 AM CST (08:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 10, 1992, 2:30 AM CST
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Warren County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 89 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
- 48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 949 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 294 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 100802 SVRBNA TNC177-100830- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 202 AM CST TUE MAR 10 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE ...SOUTHERN WARREN COUNTY RADAR INDICATES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WIND AND POSSIBLE HAIL. THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TOK RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
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 10, 12:45 AM CST, 1 hour 17 minutes before
TNZ006-007-008-009-010-011-100745- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1244 AM CST TUE MAR 10 1992 AT 1230 AM CST...A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED SOUTH OF MUSCLE SHOALS IN NORTH ALABAMA. WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING ACROSS MIDDLE TENNESSEE...THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU...SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND NORTH ALABAMA. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE ACCOMPANIED BY HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE CAUSING PONDING OF WATER IN LOW-LYING AREAS AND WILL CONTINUE THROUGH TONIGHT. SMALL STREAMS AND OTHER FLOOD-PRONE AREAS SHOULD BE WATCHED C|LOSELY.
Special weather statement, Mar 10, 1:35 AM CST, 27 minutes before
TNZ006-007-008-009-010-011-100830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 135 AM CST TUE MAR 10 1992 AT 130 AM CST...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AND HEAVY RAINS CONTINUED ACROSS MIDDLE TENNESSEE...THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU...SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND NORTH ALABAMA. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS OCCURRING ACROSS THE EAST HALF OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. FLOODc PRONE AREAS SHOULD BE WATCHED CLOSELY AS MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINS CONTINUES OVERNIGHT. PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS WILL CAUSE HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS AND MAY CAUSE PROBLEMS FOR EARLY MORNING DRIVERS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 10:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles | 56 min |
| Mar 9, 11:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Coffee | 56 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992
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.