Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 243, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 1995, 1:07 PM CDT for Davidson County, Williamson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 68 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 8, 1995, 1:07 PM CDT (18:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 1995, 2:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Davidson County, TN, Williamson County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 24 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1827 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 553 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBNA 081810 RRA SVRBNA TNC037-187-081915- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 107 PM CDT TUE AUG 8 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE ...DAVIDSON COUNTY...WILLIAMSON COUNTY AT 105 PM CDT DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATES A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING SOUTHEAST TOWARD THE NASHVILLE METROPOLITAN AREA AND WITH THUNDERSTORMS ALREADY OCCURRING IN THE NASHVILLE AREA... INTENSIFICATION IS EXPECTED TO OCCUR DURING THE NEXT HOUR WHICH WILL CAUSE STORMS TO BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. 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 BUSINElSS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. BOYD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 10:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Stewart | 63 min |
| Aug 8, 11:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton | 56 min |
| Aug 8, 11:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Houston, Montgomery | 66 min |
| Aug 8, 11:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Humphreys | 63 min |
| Aug 8, 12:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Decatur | 63 min |
| Aug 8, 12:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Williamson | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 1:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Maury | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 1:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Davidson, Wilson | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 2:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence, Wayne | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 2:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Marshall | 3 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
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.