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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Nashville, TN

September 1, 1995Maury County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 1, 1995, 2:31 PM CDT for Maury County, Tennessee. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 1, 1995, 2:31 PM CDT (19:31 UTC)
Expired
Sep 1, 1995, 3:30 PM CDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Maury County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 71 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 011931 RRA
SVRBNA
TNC119-012030-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
231 PM CDT FRI SEP 1 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  330 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...MAURY COUNTY
 
AT 230 PM CDT DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
NEAR WILLIAMSPROT ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF COLUMBIA. THE STORM
WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL TO COLUMBIA BY
245 PM CDT AND TO MCCAINS BY 3 PM CDT.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
 
 
BOYD

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, 12:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXGiles52 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

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.