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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Nashville, TN

April 18, 1995Perry County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 18, 1995, 6:36 PM CDT for Perry County, Tennessee. It was in force for 39 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 18, 1995, 6:36 PM CDT (23:36 UTC)
Expired
Apr 18, 1995, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Perry County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 126 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 1995-04-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 71 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 1995-04-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 197 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
71 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-341 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
857 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
197 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
201 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 182336
SVRBNA
TNC135-190015-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
636 PM CDT TUE APR 18 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  715 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...PERRY COUNTY
 
AT 635 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED CROSSING THE
TENNESSEE RIVER JUST NORTHWEST OF LINDEN. IT WAS MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 45 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL BE PASSING NEAR /OR OVER/ THE TOWNS
OF PINE VIEW AND LOBELVILLE.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE> TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
 
 
 
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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.