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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Nashville, TN

June 8, 1994Perry County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1994, 2:33 PM CDT for Perry County, Tennessee. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 8, 1994, 2:33 PM CDT (19:33 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 1994, 3:30 PM CDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Perry County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 126 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 1994-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 319 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 1994-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -37 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
319 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-97 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
896 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KBNA 081934
SVRBNA
TNC135-082030-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
233 PM CDT WED JUN 8 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  330 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...PERRY COUNTY
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY WEATHER RADAR AT 230 PM CDT
IN THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF PEERY COUNTY...15 MILES NORTHWEST OF
LINDEN.
 
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.
 
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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 1:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXHouston62 min
Jun 8, 1:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXStewart33 min
Jun 8, 2:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXHumphreys66 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.