Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 28, 1995, 3:15 PM CST for Williamson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 28, 1995, 3:15 PM CST (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 28, 1995, 4:15 PM CST
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Williamson County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 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
- 509 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 268 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 272 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 282117 RRA SVRBNA TNC187-282215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 315 PM CST SAT JAN 28 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE ...WILLIAMSON COUNTY AT 310 PM DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST SOU OF FRANKLIN IN WILLIAMSON COUNTY. LARGE HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAINx. 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. END/ORCHANIAN/ NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
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, Jan 28, 9:45 AM CST, 5 hours 30 minutes before
TNZ005>010-023>033-056>065-075>078-093>097-281740- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 945 AM CST SAT JAN 28 1995 AT 940 AM CST, NASHVILLE WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE SOUTHEAST PART OF LOGAN COUNTY KENTUCKY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE EXTREME NORTHEAST PART OF ROBERTSON COUNTY AND THE NORTHERN PART OF SUMNER COUNTY BY 1045 AM. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTAIN LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS, DANGEROUS LIGHTNING, STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. SCATTERED LIGHT RAIN SHOWERS WERE OBSERVED FROM AROUND SOMERSET KENTUCKY TO JAMESTOWN TENNESSEE. THE PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 35 TO 40 MILES AN HOUR. END/ORCHANIAN/ NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 28, 3:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford | 57 min |
| Jan 28, 4:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon | 63 min |
| Jan 28, 4:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Franklin | 62 min |
| Jan 28, 4:35 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cannon, Rutherford | 55 min |
| Jan 28, 4:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Warren | 61 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.