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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Nashville, TN

May 10, 1995Cannon County, Rutherford County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1995, 8:01 PM CDT for Cannon County, Rutherford County, Tennessee. It was in force for 44 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 10, 1995, 8:01 PM CDT (01:01 UTC)
Expired
May 10, 1995, 8:45 PM CDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Cannon County, TN, Rutherford County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 47 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 00:00Z on 1995-05-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 509 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1995-05-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 95 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
509 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1979 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
150 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.9

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBNA 110104
SVRBNA
TNC015-149-110145-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
801 PM CDT WED MAY 10 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  845 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...CANNON COUNTY...RUTHERFORD COUNTY
 
AT 755 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER RUTHERFORD
AND CANNON COUNTIES...JUST SOUTHEAST OF MURFREESBORO AND NEAR
WOODBURY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECRTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

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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.