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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 217, NWS Nashville, TN

July 24, 1995Marshall County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 1995, 3:18 PM CDT for Marshall County, Tennessee. It was in force for 27 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 24, 1995, 3:18 PM CDT (20:18 UTC)
Expired
Jul 24, 1995, 3:45 PM CDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Marshall County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 75 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 1995-07-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 190 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 1995-07-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 107 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
190 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
583 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
107 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBNA 242019 RRA
SVRBNA
TNC117-242045-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
318 PM CDT MON JUL 24 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  345 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...MARSHALL COUNTY
 
AT 318 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
JUST WEST OF LEWISBURG MOVING EAST 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 BUSINESSJ.  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 24, 1:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMontgomery46 min
Jul 24, 2:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXRobertson42 min
Jul 24, 2:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDavidson44 min
Jul 24, 2:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMaury18 min
Jul 24, 3:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXRutherford, Wilson45 min
Jul 24, 3:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXTrousdale27 min
Jul 24, 3:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDeKalb, Smith54 min
Jul 24, 3:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCannon54 min
Jul 24, 3:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXClay, Jackson, Overton, Putnam48 min
Jul 24, 3:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXWarren, White48 min
Jul 24, 4:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXVan Buren57 min
Jul 24, 4:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXWhite29 min
Jul 24, 4:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBledsoe52 min
Jul 24, 4:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXLawrence33 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.