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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS Nashville, TN

August 20, 1993Warren County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 20, 1993, 2:52 PM CDT for Warren County, Tennessee. It was in force for 68 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 20, 1993, 2:52 PM CDT (19:52 UTC)
Expired
Aug 20, 1993, 4:00 PM CDT
In force
68 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Warren County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 297 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, Athens Municipal, GA at 12:00Z on 1993-08-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1126 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, Athens Municipal, GA at 12:00Z on 1993-08-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 11 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1126 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
831 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 20, 1:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDeKalb65 min
Aug 20, 2:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXWilliamson67 min
Aug 20, 3:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCannon58 min
Aug 20, 3:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCoffee68 min
Aug 20, 4:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXLawrence62 min
Aug 20, 5:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXGiles64 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.