Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 24, 1994, 5:23 AM CST for Williamson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 24, 1994, 5:23 AM CST (11:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 24, 1994, 6:30 AM CST
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Williamson County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 38 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
- 2067 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBNA 241126 SVRBNA TNC187-241230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 523 AM CST THU MAR 24 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE ...WILLIAMSON COUNTY ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN WESTERN WILLIAMSON COUNTY... WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATES A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN THE WESTERN PART OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY AT 520 AM CST. THIS CLUSTER OF STORMS WAS MOVING SLOWLY TOWARD THE EAST. HEAVY RAINS WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS ALONG WITH FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND HAIL. WATER MAY POND ON ROADWAYS QUICKLY...SO MOTORIST SHOULD USE CAUTION. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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 24, 3:51 AM CST, 1 hour 32 minutes before
TNZ005-006-007-008-009-010-023-024-025-026-027-028-029-030-031- 032-033-056-057-058-059-060-061-062-063-064-065-075-076-077-078- 093-094-095-096-097-241045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 349 AM CST THU MAR 24 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN WESTERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE... AT 340 AM CST...BOTH THE MEMPHIS AND NASHVILLE WEATHER RADARS INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHERN PERRY COUNTY... 10 MILES NORTH OF LINDEN TENNESSEE. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. OTHERWISE...SCATTERED LIGHT SHOWERS WERE NOTED ACROSS SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE FROM PULASKI TO WINCHESTER. A COLD FRONT EXTENDS EARLY THIS MORNING THROUGH SOUTHERN ILLINOIS AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. THE FRONT WILL INCREASE THE CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS IN THE MID STATE AREA LATER THIS MORNING. THE COLD FRONT WILL BE PASSING THROUGH THE MID STATE AREA AROUND NOON WITH CONDITIONS IMPROVING BY LATE AFTERNOON.
Special weather statement, Mar 24, 4:48 AM CST, 35 minutes before
TNZ005>010-023>033-056>065-075>078-093>097-241150- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 446 AM CST THU MAR 24 1994 ...STRONG THUNDESTORMS IN WESTERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE... AT 440 AM CST WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM LINDEN ACROSS CENTERVILLE TO LYLES IN WESTERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL.T THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. ANOTHER AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH WESTERN KENTUCKY WAS ASSOCIATED WITH A COLD FRONT MOVING THROUGH SOUTHERN ILLINOIS AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI.
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.