Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 1993, 8:06 PM CDT for Robertson County, Sumner County, Tennessee. It was in force for 69 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 3, 1993, 8:06 PM CDT (01:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 1993, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Robertson County, TN, Sumner County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 41 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
- 138 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 631 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 390 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 503 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
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, 3:48 PM CDT, 4 hours 18 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, 4 hours 17 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, 3 hours 25 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 +
Special weather statement, May 3, 4:41 PM CDT, 3 hours 25 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 +
Special weather statement, May 3, 6:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
TNZ007-008-009-010-011-040045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 641 PM CDT MON MAY 3 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR WESTERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE UNTIL 9 PM... ...TORNADO WATCH FOR ALL OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE UNTIL MIDNIGHT... AT 630 PM CDT..A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE BETWEEN MUSCLE SHOALS IN NORTH ALABAMA...TO CENTERVILLE IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...AND RUSSELLVILLE IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL... DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. ALSO...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER THE REST OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE...NORTH ALABAMA...AND WEST AND CENTRAL KENTUCKY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES TO FORM. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ANY UPDATES OR WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 3, 6:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
TNZ007-008-009-010-011-040045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 641 PM CDT MON MAY 3 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR WESTERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE UNTIL 9 PM... ...TORNADO WATCH FOR ALL OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE UNTIL MIDNIGHT... AT 630 PM CDT..A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE BETWEEN MUSCLE SHOALS IN NORTH ALABAMA...TO CENTERVILLE IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...AND RUSSELLVILLE IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL... DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. ALSO...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER THE REST OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE...NORTH ALABAMA...AND WEST AND CENTRAL KENTUCKY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES TO FORM. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ANY UPDATES OR WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 7:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Davidson, Williamson | 59 min |
| May 3, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson | 62 min |
| May 3, 8:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Davidson, Robertson, Sumner | 3 hr |
| May 3, 8:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Williamson | 3 hr |
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.