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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Nashville, TN

April 19, 1995Giles County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 1995, 5:19 PM CDT for Giles County, Tennessee. It was in force for 41 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 19, 1995, 5:19 PM CDT (22:19 UTC)
Expired
Apr 19, 1995, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Giles County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 110 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 1995-04-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-04-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 43 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1574 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
131 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 192222 COR
SVRBNA
TNC055-192300-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTION TO LOCATION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
519 PM CDT WED APR 19 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE

   ...GILES COUNTY

AT 518 PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 15 MILES WEST OF
PULASKI MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 ILES AN HOUR. THE MOVEMENT OF THIS STORM
WILL TAKE IT CLOSE TO THE TOWNS OF BODENHAM...WALES AND LYNNVILLE.


SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VE*RY 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 19, 4:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXLawrence33 min
Apr 19, 6:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXLewis9 min
Apr 19, 6:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMaury44 min
Apr 19, 6:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMarshall, Maury40 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.