Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1994, 4:15 PM CDT for Sumner County, Wilson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 1994, 4:15 PM CDT (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1994, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Sumner County, TN, Wilson County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 28 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
- 301 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -209 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 995 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 254 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, Jun 26, 1:46 PM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Jun 26, 3:02 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
TNZ005>010-023>033-056>065-075>078-093>097-262105- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 302 PM CDT SUN JUN 26 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WEATHER RADAR AT 305 PM CDT INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CLARKSVILLE EAST ACROSS NORTHERN CHEATHAM COUNTY AND THEN NORTHEAST ACROSS SPRINGFIELD TENNESSEE TO FRANKLIN KENTUCKY AND THEN EAST TO SCOTTSVILLE KENTUCKY. THESE STORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WINDS AND HAIL. POORLY DRAINED STREETS AND AREAS THAT COLLECT WATER RAPIDLY ARE LIKELY TO FLOOD AS THESE STORMS MOVE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR OTHER THUNDERSTORMS...SOME STRONG WERE OVER WESTERN AND SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY. THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED IN THE NASHVILLE AREA. IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS THIS EVENING...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND KEEP A WEATHER EYE ON THE SKY.
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 3:07 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
TNZ005>010-023>033-056>065-075>078-093>097-262105- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 302 PM CDT SUN JUN 26 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WEATHER RADAR AT 305 PM CDT INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CLARKSVILLE EAST ACROSS NORTHERN CHEATHAM COUNTY AND THEN NORTHEAST ACROSS SPRINGFIELD TENNESSEE TO FRANKLIN KENTUCKY AND THEN EAST TO SCOTTSVILLE KENTUCKY. THESE STORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WINDS AND HAIL. POORLY DRAINED STREETS AND AREAS THAT COLLECT WATER RAPIDLY ARE LIKELY TO FLOOD AS THESE STORMS MOVE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR OTHER THUNDERSTORMS...SOME STRONG WERE OVER WESTERN AND SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY. THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED IN THE NASHVILLE AREA. IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS THIS EVENING...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND KEEP A WEATHER EYE ON THE SKY.
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 3:52 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
TNZ005>010-023>033-056>065-075>078-093>097-262155- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 352 PM CDT SUN JUN 26 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT FOR ALL OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE... AT 345 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED IN NORTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE FROM CLARKSVILLE...ASHLAND CITY...BETHPAGE TO LAFAYETTE TENNESSEE. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED IN WEST TENNESSEE NEAR TRENTON NORTH OF JACKSON. SCATTERED THUNDRSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED FROM FRANKLIN TENNESSEE SOUTWHEST TO HOHENWALD. THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING FROM SHELBYVILLE TO JUST SOUTH OF SMITHVILLE TENNESSEE. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THE ENVIRONMENT OVER MIDDLE TENNESSEE REMAINS MOIST AND UNSTABLE AND SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 3:57 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
TNZ005>010-023>033-056>065-075>078-093>097-262155- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 352 PM CDT SUN JUN 26 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT FOR ALL OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE... AT 345 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED IN NORTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE FROM CLARKSVILLE...ASHLAND CITY...BETHPAGE TO LAFAYETTE TENNESSEE. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED IN WEST TENNESSEE NEAR TRENTON NORTH OF JACKSON. SCATTERED THUNDRSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED FROM FRANKLIN TENNESSEE SOUTWHEST TO HOHENWALD. THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING FROM SHELBYVILLE TO JUST SOUTH OF SMITHVILLE TENNESSEE. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THE ENVIRONMENT OVER MIDDLE TENNESSEE REMAINS MOIST AND UNSTABLE AND SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICALS APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 1:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Montgomery, Stewart | 63 min |
| Jun 26, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson | 60 min |
| Jun 26, 4:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson | 57 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994
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.