Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 7, 1995, 7:44 PM CST for White County, Tennessee. It was in force for 31 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 7, 1995, 7:44 PM CST (01:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 1995, 8:15 PM CST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County White County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 493 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -247 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -222 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBNA 080145 RRA SVRBNA TNC185-080215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 744 PM CST TUE MAR 7 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE ...WHITE COUNTY AT 743 PM CST A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN SOUTHERN WHITE COUNTY ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTH OF SPARTA. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. 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.
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, Mar 7, 5:45 PM CST, 1 hour 59 minutes before
TNZ005>010-023>033-056>065-075>078-093>097-080200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 545 PM CST TUE MAR 7 1995 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT FOR ALL OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 7 PM FOR EASTERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST FOR EASTERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...GENRRALLY EAST OF A LINE FROM LAFAYETTE IN MACON COUNTY TO FAYETTEVILLE IN LINCOLN COUNTY. AT 545 PM CST THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR CARTHAGE IN SMITH COUNTY AND IN WILSON COUNTY NEAR WATERTOWN. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. ELSEWHERE WIDESPREAD RAIN AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER MIDDLE TENNESSEE AND ADJACENT SECTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND NORTH ALABAMA. THE COLD FRONT RESPONSIBLE FOR TODAYS ROUGH WEATHER WAS LOCATED FROM LAFAYETTE TO MURFREESBORO TO PULASKI. NORTH WINDS BEHIND THE FRONT WERE USHERING MUCH COLDER AIR INTO THE REGION. WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE FRONT...THE TEMPERATURE WILL DROP 10 TO 15 DEGREES IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FRREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS.
Special weather statement, Mar 7, 5:51 PM CST, 1 hour 53 minutes before
TNZ005>010-023>033-056>065-075>078-093>097-080200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 545 PM CST TUE MAR 7 1995 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT FOR ALL OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 7 PM FOR EASTERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST FOR EASTERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...GENRRALLY EAST OF A LINE FROM LAFAYETTE IN MACON COUNTY TO FAYETTEVILLE IN LINCOLN COUNTY. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR CARTHAGE IN SMITH COUNTY AND IN WILSON COUNTY NEAR WATERTOWN, THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. ELSEWHERE WIDESPREAD RAIN AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER MIDDLE TENNESSEE AND ADJACENT SECTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND NORTH ALABAMA. THE COLD FRONT RESPONSIBLE FOR TODAYS ROUGH WEATHER WAS LOCATED FROM LAFAYETTE TO MURFREESBORO TO PULASKI. NORTH WINDS BEHIND THE FRONT WERE USHERING MUCH COLDER AIR INTO THE REGION.J WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE FRONT...THE TEMPERATURE WILL DROP 10 TO 15 DEGREES IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FRREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS.
Special weather statement, Mar 7, 5:53 PM CST, 1 hour 51 minutes before
TNZ005>010-023>033-056>065-075>078-093>097-080200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 545 PM CST TUE MAR 7 1995 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT FOR ALL OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 7 PM FOR EASTERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST FOR EASTERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...GENRRALLY EAST OF A LINE FROM LAFAYETTE IN MACON COUNTY TO FAYETTEVILLE IN LINCOLN COUNTY. AT 545 PM CST THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR CARTHAGE IN SMITH COUNTY AND IN WILSON COUNTY NEAR WATERTOWN. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. ELSEWHERE WIDESPREAD RAIN AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER MIDDLE TENNESSEE AND ADJACENT SECTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND NORTH ALABAMA. THE COLD FRONT RESPONSIBLE FOR TODAYS ROUGH WEATHER WAS LOCATED FROM LAFAYETTE TO MURFREESBORO TO PULASKI. NORTH WINDS BEHIND THE FRONT WERE USHERING MUCH COLDER AIRR INTO THE REGION. WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE FRONT...THE TEMPERATURE WILL DROP 10 TO 15 DEGREES IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FRREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 6:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford | 44 min |
| Mar 7, 6:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Franklin | 35 min |
| Mar 7, 6:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Coffee, Warren | 49 min |
| Mar 7, 8:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Overton | 19 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
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.