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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 159, NWS Nashville, TN

June 17, 1995Sequatchie County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 1995, 3:19 PM CDT for Sequatchie County, Tennessee. It was in force for 41 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 17, 1995, 3:19 PM CDT (20:19 UTC)
Expired
Jun 17, 1995, 4:00 PM CDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Sequatchie County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 137 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 12:00Z on 1995-06-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 174 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 12:00Z on 1995-06-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
174 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-88 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1443 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS1 KBNA 172019 RRA
SVRBNA
TNC153-172100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
319 PM CDT SAT JUN 17 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  400 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE
 
   ...SEQUATCHIE COUNTY
 
AT 319 PM...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO
THE NORTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY. LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY. THE STORM WAS
MOVING SOUTHWEST NEAR 20 MILES AN HOUR.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 17, 3:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBledsoe29 min
Jun 17, 4:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBledsoe57 min
Jun 17, 6:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCannon46 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.