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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 248, NWS Nashville, TN

September 1, 1995Giles County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 1, 1995, 12:53 PM CDT for Giles County, Tennessee. It was in force for 52 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 1, 1995, 12:53 PM CDT (17:53 UTC)
Expired
Sep 1, 1995, 1:45 PM CDT
In force
52 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, 5.9 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 1995-09-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2470 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 1995-09-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 26 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2470 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-68 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
940 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBNA 011753 RRA
SVRBNA
TNC055-011845-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1253 PM CDT FRI SEP 1 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  145 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...GILES COUNTY
 
AT 1252 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...ABOUT 5 MILES
NORTHWEST OF LAWRENCEBURG. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 30
MPH...AND WILL MOVE TO JUST WEST OF PULASKI...BY 115 PM AND TO PROSPECT
BY 130 PM. YOU SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.
 
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.
 
TT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 1, 9:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXJackson, Putnam49 min
Sep 1, 12:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXLawrence44 min
Sep 1, 12:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBedford, Moore61 min
Sep 1, 1:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXFranklin, Lincoln69 min
Sep 1, 2:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBedford, Rutherford44 min
Sep 1, 2:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMaury59 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.