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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 255, NWS Nashville, TN

October 27, 1995Decatur County, Perry County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 27, 1995, 2:16 AM CDT for Decatur County, Perry County, Tennessee. It was in force for 44 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 27, 1995, 2:16 AM CDT (07:16 UTC)
Expired: Oct 27, 1995, 3:00 AM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Decatur County, TN, Perry County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 137 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1849 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 357 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 434 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 270714 RRA
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TNC135-039-270800-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
216 AM CDT FRI OCT 27 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  300 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...PERRY COUNTY
 
IN WEST TENNESSEE
 
   ...DECATUR COUNTY
 
AT 215 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED IN
SOUTHERN DECATUR COUNTY...NEAR DECATURVILLE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING
TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH...AND WILL MOVE TO NEAR PERRYVILLE BY 230
AM AND LOBELVILLE BY 240 AM. YOU SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.
 
A TORNADO WATCHP IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Oct 26, 1:35 PM CDT, 12 hours 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 26, 1:35 PM CDT, 12 hours 41 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
135 PM CDT THU OCT 26 1995

UNSETTLD WX PTTN CONTUG MST OF THIS FCST PD.  ALL MDLS IN GUD AGREEMT W/
MOVMT OF MD/UPR TROFS BUT ETA LTL SLOR W/CDFNT.  NGM/AVN PLACES CDFNT NR
TYS-ANB LN 00Z SAT WHILE ETA LKS LN NR BNA-HSV.  NVR-THE-LESS...BST PCPN
CHCS OVR MD-STATE TNGT-00Z SAT.  THETA E RDG ALONG W/BST VV & MSTR CNVRGNC
SETS UP OVR BNA ARND 12Z FRI W/ CDFNT NR MS RVR.  GUD DRY PUNCH ALONG FNT
CUD BRING SOME TRWS FRI MRNG BNA-W/ELY AFTN BNA-E.  GUD DRYG PROGGD ALOFT
BHND FNT W/LO-LVL DRYG OCCURG AFT 12Z SAT.  PCPN SHUD BE DONE ACRS ENTIRE
FA 00Z SAT HWEVR...POST-FNTL L- PSBL W GUD CCA IN WAKE FRI/NGT ELY SAT
MRNG.  W/GUD LO-LVL DRYG AFT 12Z SAT AND THRML TROF MOVG E OF FA...XPCT
CLRG SKIES BY 12Z SAT BNA-W AND SAT MRNG FAR E.

MOS TMPS SEEM REASNBL W/FANS ACTUALLY QUITE CLOSE FOR A CHG AND BNDRY LYR
SUPPRTS TMPS AS WELL.  WUD STAY IN BALL PARK.

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 26, 11:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Stewart	39 min
Oct 27, 2:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman	44 min
Oct 27, 3:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson, Williamson	38 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.