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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS Nashville, TN

June 7, 1995Rutherford County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 1995, 8:27 PM CDT for Rutherford County, Tennessee. It was in force for 48 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 7, 1995, 8:27 PM CDT (01:27 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 1995, 9:15 PM CDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Rutherford County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 36 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 1995-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2872 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 26 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
2872 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1165 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.4

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBNA 080125 RRA
SVRBNA
TNC149-080215-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
827 PM CDT WED JUN 7 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  915 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...RUTHERFORD COUNTY
 
DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR AT 825 PM CDT INDICATES A LINE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS FIXING TO ENTER NORTHWEST RUTHERFORD COUNTY. THE
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN
HOUR AND WILL MOVE INTO THE LAVERGNE AND SMYRNA AREA BY 830 PM CDT
AND IN THE MURFREESBORO AREA BY 845 PM CDT.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTVER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

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, Jun 7, 3:30 PM CDT, 4 hours 57 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
330 PM CDT WED JUN 7 1995

...DELAYED REPORTS FOR TUESDAY, JUNE 6TH...

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

735 PM     7 SW SMITHVILLE          TN    TREES DOWN NEAR CANNON COUNTY
06/06/95   DEKALB CO                      LINE AS REPORTED BY HIGHWAY
                                          DEPARTMENT.

630 PM     HARTSVILLE               TN    FEW TREES DOWN COUNTYWIDE AS
06/06/95   TROUSDALE CO                   REPORTED BY HIGHWAY DEPT.

630  PM    LAFAYETTE                TN    TREES AND LARGE TREE LIMBS
6/06/95    MACON CO                       DOWN COUNTYWIDE AS REPORTED
                                          BY LOCAL NEWSPAPER.

805  PM    10 S LIVINGSTON          TN    1 TREE DOWN ACROSS ROAD AS
6/06/95    OVERTON CO                     BY HIGHWAY DEPT.
Local storm report, Jun 7, 3:31 PM CDT, 4 hours 56 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
330 PM CDT WED JUN 7 1995

...DELAYED REPORTS FOR TUESDAY, JUNE 6TH...

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

735 PM     7 SW SMITHVILLE          TN    TREES DOWN NEAR CANNON COUNTY
06/06/95   DEKALB CO                      LINE AS REPORTED BY HIGHWAY
                                          DEPARTMENT.

630 PM     HARTSVILLE               TN    FEW TREES DOWN COUNTYWIDE AS
06/06/95   TROUSDALE CO                   REPORTED BY HIGHWAY DEPT.

630  PM    LAFAYETTE                TN    TREES AND LARGE TREE LIMBS
6/06/95    MACON CO                       DOWN COUNTYWIDE AS REPORRTED
                                          BY LOCAL NEWSPAPER.

805  PM    10 S LIVINGSTON          TN    1 TREE DOWN ACROSS ROAD AS
6/06/95    OVERTON CO                     BY HIGHWAY DEPT.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 7:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCheatham, Robertson45 min
Jun 7, 7:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDickson45 min
Jun 7, 7:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDavidson, Sumner63 min
Jun 7, 7:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXHickman, Williamson69 min
Jun 7, 8:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXWilson55 min
Jun 7, 8:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMaury56 min
Jun 7, 8:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMacon, Trousdale56 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.