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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 161, NWS Nashville, TN

June 17, 1995Cannon County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 1995, 6:14 PM CDT for Cannon County, Tennessee. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 17, 1995, 6:14 PM CDT (23:14 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 1995, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Cannon County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 60 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: 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 
TTAA00 KBNA 172317 RRA
SVRBNA
TNC015-180000-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
614 PM CDT SAT JUN 17 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...CANNON COUNTY
 
DOPPLER RADAR AT 610 PM CDT INDICATES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST
SOUTHWEST OF WOODBURY MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS BRADYVILLE BY 625 PM CDT.
 
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.
 
 
BOYD

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 17, 4:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
459 PM CDT SAT JUN 17 1995

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

0415 PM    10S PIKEVILLE             TN   0.75 inch hail
6/17/95    BLEDSOE

BOYD

Local storm report, Jun 17, 5:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
459 PM CDT SAT JUN 17 1995

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

0415t PM    10S PIKEVILLE             TN   0.75 inch hail
6/17/95    BLEDSOE

BOYD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 17, 3:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bledsoe	29 min
Jun 17, 3:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Sequatchie	41 min
Jun 17, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bledsoe	57 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 1995 Every 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.