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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Nashville, TN

May 26, 1995Lawrence County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1995, 7:56 PM CDT for Lawrence County, Tennessee. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 26, 1995, 7:56 PM CDT (00:56 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 1995, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Lawrence County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 124 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 1995-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 304 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 1995-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
304 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1158 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KBNA 270059
SVRBNA
TNC099-270200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
756 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  900 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...LAWRENCE COUNTY
 
DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATES A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
FROM ST JOSEPH TO LORETTO AND ON TO LEOMA AND FALL RIVER IN THE
SOUTHERN PART OF LAWRENCE COUNTY.  THIS CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
HAS MOVED LITTLE DURING THE LAST HOUR AND WAS ALSO PRODUCING FLASH
FLOODING ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PART OF LAWRENCE COUNTY AT 750 PM CDT.
 
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.
 
 
BOYD
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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.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 26, 4:55 PM CDT, 3 hours 1 minute before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
455 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....  STATE...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE       ....COUNTY LOCATION....

415  PM    STEWART CO               TN    WIDESPREAD POWER OUTAGES
06/06/95                                  DUE TO TREES DOWN ACROSS
                                          LINES.

430  PM    PALMYRA                  TN    GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AND WIND
06/06/95   MONTGOMERY CO                  GUSTS TO 45 KTS.

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.