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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Nashville, TN

January 28, 1995Franklin County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 28, 1995, 4:28 PM CST for Franklin County, Tennessee. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 28, 1995, 4:28 PM CST (22:28 UTC)
Expired
Jan 28, 1995, 5:30 PM CST
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Franklin County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 118 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 1995-01-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-01-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 268 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
509 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
75 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
268 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
272 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS1 KBNA 282229 RRA
SVRBNA
TNC051-282330-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
428 PM CST SAT JAN 28 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...FRANKLIN COUNTY
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR
AT 425 PM CST BETWEEN WINCHESTER AND TULLAHOMA.
 
THIS STORM CONTAINS LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.
 
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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 28, 3:15 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXWilliamson60 min
Jan 28, 3:48 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXRutherford57 min
Jan 28, 4:12 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCannon63 min
Jan 28, 4:35 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXCannon, Rutherford55 min
Jan 28, 4:59 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXWarren61 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.