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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Nashville, TN

January 28, 1995Rutherford County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 28, 1995, 3:48 PM CST for Rutherford County, Tennessee. It was in force for 57 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jan 28, 1995, 3:48 PM CST (21:48 UTC)
Expired: Jan 28, 1995, 4:45 PM CST
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Rutherford County, TN

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jan 28, 3:55 PM CST	Tornado F1	Rockvale, TN	Two houses, one mobile home, and a barn was destroyed. A barn collapsed on a man who was feeding his calf. Several trees were blown down.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 36 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 509 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 75 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 268 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 272 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBNA 282150 RRA
SVRBNA
TNC149-282245-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
348 PM CST SAT JAN 28 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  445 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...RUTHERFORD COUNTY
 
DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR AT 345 PM SHOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LEAVING
WILLIAMSON COUNTY ENTERING RUTHERFORD COUNTY. EXPECT LARGE HAIL WITH
THIS THUNDERSTORM.
 
THIS STORM WILL TRACK BETWEEN SMYRNA AND MURFREESBORO BY 445 PM.
 
THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 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.
 
 
END/ORCHANIAN/NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 28, 3:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Williamson	60 min
Jan 28, 4:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cannon	63 min
Jan 28, 4:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Franklin	62 min
Jan 28, 4:35 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Cannon, Rutherford	55 min
Jan 28, 4:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Warren	61 min

Nearby

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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.