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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 100, NWS Nashville, TN

May 18, 1995Williamson County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 1995, 6:10 AM CDT for Williamson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 18, 1995, 6:10 AM CDT (11:10 UTC)
Expired: May 18, 1995, 7:15 AM CDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Williamson County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 11.2 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.

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: 916 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 935 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 131 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 171 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 4.9

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The text

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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.

NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 17, 10:12 AM CDT, 19 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 17, 10:12 AM CDT, 19 hours 58 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1005 AM CDT WED MAY 17 1995

HAVEN'T GOTTEN ANY 12Z PC-GRIDDS DATA YET. HOWEVER, 12Z BNA SOUNDING
SHOWS SEVERAL CAPS NEAR 850 AND 700 MB /CAP AT 850 MB AMOUNTS TO
ABOUT 2.5 DEG C/. WATCHING KHPX 88-D DATA THIS MORNING, AS TSTM COMPLEX
MOVES ESEWD OVER SRN KY, AND HAVE SEEN WK OUTFLOW BOUNDARY DESCEND INTO
NRN MIDDLE TN. HOWEVER, WARM AIR CAP ALOFT SEEMS TO BE HELPING TO
DIMINISH SHOWER DEVELOPMENT AS IT MOVES IN. SINCE FORCING MECHANISMS FOR
THIS AFTERNOON LOOK WK /I.E., MOSTLY AMS-TYPE TSTMS/, BELIEVE IT SHUD
BE DIFFICULT TO BREAK CAP TDY. OF COURSE, TIME WILL TELL.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 18, 9:14 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Hickman, Humphreys, Perry	4 hr
May 18, 9:14 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Dickson, Houston, Montgomery	4 hr
May 18, 9:58 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Davidson, Robertson, Sumner	3 hr
May 18, 9:58 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Williamson	3 hr
May 18, 10:53 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Stewart	3 hr
May 18, 11:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham	37 min
May 18, 12:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Williamson	28 min
May 18, 12:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson	65 min
May 18, 12:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Davidson	13 min
May 18, 12:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Sumner	62 min
May 18, 12:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wilson	60 min
May 18, 12:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Sumner	32 min
May 18, 12:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Trousdale	43 min
May 18, 1:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Macon	33 min
May 18, 1:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Smith	21 min
May 18, 1:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Clay, Jackson	57 min
May 18, 1:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Clay	39 min
May 18, 3:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson, Montgomery	42 min
May 18, 3:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Hickman, Lewis	63 min
May 18, 3:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Maury	43 min
May 18, 3:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Perry, Wayne	52 min
May 18, 3:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Perry, Wayne	51 min
May 18, 3:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Stewart	32 min
May 18, 4:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Marshall, Williamson	42 min
May 18, 4:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Maury	31 min
May 18, 4:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Lawrence, Lewis	50 min
May 18, 4:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Bedford, Rutherford	49 min
May 18, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Houston, Humphreys	64 min
May 18, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Stewart	64 min
May 18, 4:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Giles, Maury	68 min
May 18, 5:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Cannon	45 min
May 18, 5:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Marshall	47 min
May 18, 5:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	DeKalb, Warren	40 min
May 18, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson	48 min
May 18, 5:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Lincoln	64 min
May 18, 5:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Cheatham	45 min
May 18, 5:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	White	42 min
May 18, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford	41 min
May 18, 5:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Bedford	49 min
May 18, 5:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Robertson	61 min
May 18, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence, Lewis	49 min
May 18, 6:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Franklin	60 min
May 18, 6:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Coffee	53 min
May 18, 6:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Franklin	51 min
May 18, 6:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Dickson, Williamson	54 min
May 18, 6:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Warren	52 min
May 18, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson	45 min
May 18, 6:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Davidson	54 min
May 18, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wilson	67 min
May 18, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Maury	62 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.