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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Apr 29, 1994, 1:47 PM CDT for Robertson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 29, 1994, 1:47 PM CDT (18:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 1994, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Robertson County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 50 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
- 2030 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 963 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBNA 291850 TORBNA TNC147-291945- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 147 PM CDT FRI APR 29 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE ...ROBERTSON COUNTY AT 140 PM CDT...A SHERIFFS DEPUTY REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD IN SOUTHERN RO RCOUNTY...MOVING TOWARDS GREENBRIER. RADAR INDICATES STRONG THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IN ROBERTSON COUNTY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Apr 29, 1:04 PM CDT, 43 minutes before
TNZ005>010-023>033-056>065-075>078-093>097-291905- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 101 PM CDT FRI APR 29 1994 AT 100 PM CDT...SEVERAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED ACROSS MIDDLE TENNESSEE IN A BAND FROM SAVANNAH TO DICKSON...SPRINGFIELD AND NORTH TO COLUMBIA IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED SOUTH OF ASHLAND IN CHEATHAM COUNTY AND NEAR THE SOUTHERN END OF THE LAND BETWEEN THE LAKES. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STROMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL FOR BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...STRONG WIND AND HAIL. THESE STORMS ARE THE LEADING EDGE OF AN AREA OF POTENTIALLY SEVERE WEATHER AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT THAT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE REGION OVERNIGHT AND EARLY SATURDAY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 1:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman | 37 min |
| Apr 29, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson | 60 min |
| Apr 29, 3:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Macon | 57 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.