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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS Nashville, TN

July 22, 1995Cheatham County, Robertson County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 1995, 2:56 PM CDT for Cheatham County, Robertson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 22, 1995, 2:56 PM CDT (19:56 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 1995, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Cheatham County, TN, Robertson County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 45 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: 197 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 579 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.4

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBNA 221958 RRA
SVRBNA
TNC021-147-222100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
256 PM CDT SAT JUL 22 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  400 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...CHEATHAM COUNTY...ROBERTSON COUNTY
 
AT 2:50 PM CDT..A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES EAST OF
CLARKSVILLE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM PRODUCED WIND DAMAGE AS IT
MOVED ACROSS MONTGOMERY COUNTY. WEATHER RADAR INDICATED ANOTHER SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM LOCATED NEAR CUMBERLAND FURNACE..15 MILES NORTH OF DICKSON.
THIS STORM WAS ALSO MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
 
 
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.
 
 
 
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 22, 2:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Houston, Montgomery, Stewart	67 min
Jul 22, 2:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson	57 min
Jul 22, 3:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson	62 min
Jul 22, 3:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Sumner	69 min
Jul 22, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman	65 min
Jul 22, 3:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Williamson	63 min
Jul 22, 3:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wilson	68 min
Jul 22, 4:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Macon, Trousdale, Wilson	56 min
Jul 22, 4:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford	56 min
Jul 22, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cannon, DeKalb	65 min
Jul 22, 5:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Jackson, Putnam	50 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.