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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Nashville, TN

May 3, 1993Wayne County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 1993, 5:32 PM CDT for Wayne County, Tennessee. It was in force for 28 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 3, 1993, 5:32 PM CDT (22:32 UTC)
Expired
May 3, 1993, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Wayne County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 146 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1993-05-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 22 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1993-05-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 250 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
22 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
539 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
250 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
348 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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, May 3, 2:44 PM CDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 3, 3:48 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
TNZ006-007-008-009-010-011-032145-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
349 PM CDT MON MAY 3 1993

AT 335PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE OCCURRING
IN THE SOUTH PART OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE...JUST NORTH OF LEWISBURG AND
JUST WEST OF CENTERVILLE. THESE ARE STRONG STORMS AND COULD BECOME
SEVERE.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AND RAIN WAS OCCURRING IN THE SOUTH AND WEST
PART OF MIDDLE TENNES\SEE...WEST TENNESSEE...WEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL
KENTUCKY AND NORTH ALABAMA.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, May 3, 3:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
TNZ006-007-008-009-010-011-032145-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
349 PM CDT MON MAY 3 1993

AT 335PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE OCCURRING
IN THE SOUTH PART OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE...JUST NORTH OF LEWISBURG AND
JUST WEST OF CENTERVILLE. THESE ARE STRONG STORMS AND COULD BECOME
SEVERE.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AND RAIN WAS OCCURRING IN THE SOUTH AND WEST
PART OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE...WEST TENNESSEE...WEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL
KENTUCKY AND NORTH ALABAMA.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, May 3, 4:41 PM CDT, 51 minutes before
TNZ007-008-009-010-011-032245-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
441 PM CDT MON MAY 3 1993

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR WESTERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE UNTIL 9 PM...

AT 430 PM CDT...NASHVILLE WEATHER RADAR SHOWED SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS
WITH HEAVY RAIN.  THEY WERE IN WEST TENNESSEE NEAR SAVANNAH...IN MIDDLE
TENNESSEE JUST WEST OF COLUMBIA...AND IN WEST KENTUCKY AROUND FORT
CAMPBELL.

OTHERWISE...THUNDERSTORMA WERE SCATTERED ACROSS THE WESTERN HALF OF
MIDDLE TENNESSEE...WEST TENNESSEE...NORTHWEST ALABAMA...AND WEST AND
CENTRAL KENTUCKY.

MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

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Special weather statement, May 3, 4:41 PM CDT, 51 minutes before
TNZ007-008-009-010-011-032245-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
441 PM CDT MON MAY 3 1993

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR WESTERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE UNTIL 9 PM...

AT 430 PM CDT...NASHVILLE WEATHER RADAR SHOWED SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS
WITH HEAVY RAIN.  THEY WERE IN WEST TENNESSEE NEAR SAVANNAH...IN MIDDLE
TENNESSEE JUST WEST OF COLUMBIA...AND IN WEST KENTUCKY AROUND FORT
CAMPBELL.

OTHERWISE...THUNDERSTORMA WERE SCATTERED ACROSS THE WESTERN HALF OF
MIDDLE TENNESSEE...WEST TENNESSEE...NORTHWEST ALABAMA...AND WEST AND
CENTRAL KENTUCKY.

MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

WWUS35KPDX+

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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.