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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 174, NWS Nashville, TN

July 3, 1995Marshall County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1995, 6:02 PM CDT for Marshall County, Tennessee. It was in force for 43 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 3, 1995, 6:02 PM CDT (23:02 UTC)
Expired
Jul 3, 1995, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Marshall County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 75 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 1995-07-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 92 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 1995-07-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 71 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
92 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-173 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
891 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
86 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 032301 RRA
SVRBNA
TNC117-032345-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
602 PM CDT MON JUL 3 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...MARSHALL COUNTY
 
AT 602 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WEST
OF LEWISBURG MOVING EAST NEAR 30 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 WINDORWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 3, 4:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDecatur37 min
Jul 3, 4:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXPerry43 min
Jul 3, 4:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXLewis41 min
Jul 3, 5:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXLawrence38 min
Jul 3, 5:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXGiles, Maury48 min
Jul 3, 5:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXLewis25 min
Jul 3, 5:48 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXGiles, Maury42 min
Jul 3, 6:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXFranklin, Lincoln56 min

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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.