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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 221, NWS Nashville, TN

July 24, 19954 counties in Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 1995, 3:57 PM CDT for 4 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 48 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 24, 1995, 3:57 PM CDT (20:57 UTC)
Expired
Jul 24, 1995, 4:45 PM CDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Clay County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Overton County, TN, Putnam County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 102 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 242058 RRA
SVRBNA
TNC027-087-133-141-177-185-242145-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
357 PM CDT MON JUL 24 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  445 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...CLAY COUNTY...JACKSON COUNTY...OVERTON COUNTY
   ...PUTNAM COUNTY...WARREN COUNTY...WHITE COUNTY
 
AT 357 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING WIDESPREAD WIND DAMAGE ENTERING THE
WESTERN PARTS OF THESE COUNTIES. ALL STORMS WERE MOVING EAST
NEAR 35 MILES AN HOUR.
 
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.

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, 3:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMarshall27 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 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

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.