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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS Nashville, TN

June 17, 1995Van Buren County, White County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 1995, 7:41 PM CDT for Van Buren County, White County, Tennessee. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 17, 1995, 7:41 PM CDT (00:41 UTC)
Expired
Jun 17, 1995, 8:45 PM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Van Buren County, TN, White County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 109 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 1995-06-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 181 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 1995-06-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 27 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
181 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2012 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
38 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 180042 RRA
SVRBNA
TNC185-175-180145-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
741 PM CDT SAT JUN 17 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  845 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...WHITE COUNTY
 
IN SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE
 
   ...VAN BUREN COUNTY
 
DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR AT 735 PM CDT INDICATES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
IN SOUTHWEST CUMBERLAND COUNTY MOVING INTO EASTERN WHITE AND NORTHEAST
VAN BUREN COUNTIES.  THE COMMUNITIES IN THE PATH OF THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM ARE EASTLAND...LOST CREEK AND DODSON IN WHITE COUNTY AND
CUMMINGSVILLE IN VAN BUREN.  THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING SOUTHWEST
AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER 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.
 
 
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, 2 hours 42 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, 2 hours 38 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
Local storm report, Jun 17, 6:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
625 PM CDT SAT JUN 17 1995

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

0625 PM    5SW WOODBURY              TN   0.75 inch hail
6/17/95    CANNON                         REPORTED BY THE CANNON CO
                                          SHERIFFS OFFICE.

BOYD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 18, 4:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXWarren55 min
Jun 18, 4:44 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXWarren53 min
Jun 18, 5:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXLincoln67 min
Jun 18, 5:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXGiles, Marshall57 min
Jun 18, 6:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXStewart65 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.