Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1995, 3:16 PM CDT for Coffee County, Tennessee. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 1995, 3:16 PM CDT (20:16 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 1995, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Coffee County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 85 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
- 43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -179 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1494 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 228 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBNA 102018 SVRBNA TNC031-102100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 316 PM CDT WED MAY 10 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE ...COFFEE COUNTY AT 315 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR TULLAHOMA. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT AROUND 30 MPH...AND WILL REACH ARNOLD AIR FORCE BASE BY 330 PM...AND MANCHESTER BY 345 PM. YOU SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRTODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. TROUTMAN
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.
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 10, 10:06 AM CDT, 5 hours 10 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1000 AM CDT WED MAY 10 1995
DELAYED LOCAL STORM REPORT FOR MAY 9 SEVERE WEATHER EVENT
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION....
0840 AM MAURY TN WATER OVER ROADS
05/09/95 COUNTYWIDE. REPORTED
BY EMA.
0845 AM MAURY TN CREEK FLOODED. 2 INCHES
05/09/95 WATER OVER ROADS IN
COLUMBIA.
0915 AM SUMNER TN WATER OVER ROADS NEAR
05/09/95 HENDERSONVILLE AND
GALLATIN.
0930 AM WILLIAMSON TN WATER OVER SEVERAL
05/09/95 COUNTY ROADS.
0915-0930 AM RUTHERFORD TN WATER OVER SEVERAL ROADS.
05/09/95
0945 AM MAURY TN COLUMBIA NEWS HERALD
05/09/95 REPORTED NUMEROUS STREETS
FLOODED AND SOME RESIDENTS
EVACUATED ALONG TOWN CREEK.
1040 AM NORTH COFFEE TN FEW TREES DOWN BETWEEN
05/09/95 BEECHGROVE AND FREDONIA.
REPORTED BY COFFEE CO.
HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT.
1045 AM SOUTHEAST CANNON COUNTY TN ELECTRIC COMPANY REPORTED
05/09/95 TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN NEAR PLEASANTVIEW.
1100 AM SMITH TN WATER OVER SEVERAL COUNTY
05/09/95 ROADS.
1145 AM DE KALB TN LARGE LIMBS DOWN IN
05/09/95 SMITHVILLE. REPORTED BY
DE KALB EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.
1159 AM COFFEE TN WATER OVER ROADS NEAR
05/09/95 BEECHGROVE.
1209 PM WARREN TN ELECTRIC COMPANY REPORTED
05/09/95 POWER LINE DOWN NEAR
MORRISON.
1241 PM WARREN TN WATER OVER ROADS IN
05/09/95 MCMINNVILLE AND ACROSS
COUNTY REPORTED BY EMA.
1245-100 PM WARREN TN SEVERAL TREES DOWNED
05/09/95 ACROSS COUNTY. REPORTED BY
WARREN CO. SHERIFF DEPT.
115 PM WARREN TN HIGHWAY DEPT. REPORTED
05/09/995 3-4 FEET OF WATER OVER
MANY COUNTY ROADS.
200 PM WARREN TN BRIDGE WASHED OUT IN
05/09/95 NORTHWEST WARREN CO. NEAR
BLUES HILL. REPORTED BY
WARREN CO. SHERIFF DEPT.
130 PM WHITE TN WATER IN BASEMENT OF ONE
05/09/95 HOUSE JUST NORTH OF SPARTA
ON RT. 111. REPORT BY EMA
OFFICIAL.
END/ORCHANIAN/TROUTMANThe office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 2:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lincoln, Moore | 51 min |
| May 10, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford | 26 min |
| May 10, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Coffee | 30 min |
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.