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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Nashville, TN

July 4, 1995Sumner County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 1995, 6:54 PM CDT for Sumner County, Tennessee. It was in force for 51 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 4, 1995, 6:54 PM CDT (23:54 UTC)
Expired
Jul 4, 1995, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Sumner County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 40 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 1995-07-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1556 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 1995-07-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 133 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
1556 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
532 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
133 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
132 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 042352 RRA
SVRBNA
TNC165-050045-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
654 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  745 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...SUMNER COUNTY
 
AT 654 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
JUST SOUTHWEST OF GALLATIN MOVING NORTHEAST NEAR 35 MILES AN HOUR.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 4, 6:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDavidson48 min
Jul 4, 6:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDickson54 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.