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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Nashville, TN

May 10, 1995Bedford County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1995, 5:04 PM CDT for Bedford County, Tennessee. It was in force for 26 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 10, 1995, 5:04 PM CDT (22:04 UTC)
Expired
May 10, 1995, 5:30 PM CDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Bedford County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 70 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 1995-05-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 43 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 1995-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 197 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBNA 102206
SVRBNA
TNC003-102230-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
504 PM CDT WED MAY 10 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...BEDFORD COUNTY
 
AT 503 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR SHELBYVILLE.
THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH...AND WILL REACH WARTRACE BY
520 PM AND FAIRFIELD BY 530 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 6ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
 
TROUTMAN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 10, 2:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXLincoln, Moore51 min
May 10, 3:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCoffee44 min
May 10, 5:15 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXCoffee30 min

Nearby

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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.