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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Nashville, TN

June 29, 1994Rutherford County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1994, 4:50 PM CDT for Rutherford County, Tennessee. It was in force for 25 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 29, 1994, 4:50 PM CDT (21:50 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 1994, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Rutherford County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 36 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1685 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 836 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.1

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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 29, 12:11 PM CDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before

TNZ005>010-023>033-056>065-075>078-093>097-291815-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1211 PM CDT WED JUN 29 1994

AT 1205 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED OVER
COLUMBIA TENNESSEE IN MAURY COUNTY.  THIS STORM WILL MOVE
EAST THROUGH MAURY COUNTY.

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO MOVING THROUGH FRANKLIN COUNTY
AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY
LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN.

Special weather statement, Jun 29, 12:12 PM CDT, 4 hours 38 minutes before

TNZ005>010-023>033-056>065-075>078-093>097-291815-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1211 PM CDT WED JUN 29 1994

AT 1205 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED OVER
COLUMBIA TENNESSEE IN MAURY COUNTY.  THIS STORM WILL MOVE
EAST THROUGH MAURY COUNTY.

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO MOVING THROUGH FRANKLIN COUNTY
AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY
LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN.

Special weather statement, Jun 29, 3:33 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 29, 3:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 29, 3:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 29, 3:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 29, 4:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence, Wayne	45 min
Jun 29, 9:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wayne	69 min
Jun 29, 10:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence	67 min
Jun 29, 10:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles	55 min
Jun 29, 10:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lincoln	66 min
Jun 29, 1:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cannon, DeKalb	62 min
Jun 29, 2:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Putnam	61 min

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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.