Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Nashville, TN

April 17, 1995Giles County, Maury County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 17, 1995, 4:50 AM CDT for Giles County, Maury County, Tennessee. It was in force for 40 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 17, 1995, 4:50 AM CDT (09:50 UTC)
Expired
Apr 17, 1995, 5:30 AM CDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Giles County, TN, Maury County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 90 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 1995-04-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 333 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 1995-04-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 80 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
333 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1541 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
80 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
131 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBNA 170950
SVRBNA
TNC055-119-171030-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
450 AM CDT MON APR 17 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...NORTHERN GILES COUNTY...SOUTHERN MAURY COUNTY
 
AT 450 AM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS OCCURRING ACROSS NORTHERN GILES
AND SOUTHERN MAURY COUNTIES. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST
SOUTHEAST AROUND 35 MILES AN HOUR.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTE(CTION 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.

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.