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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Nashville, TN

May 13, 1995Smith County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 1995, 8:30 AM CDT for Smith County, Tennessee. It was in force for 30 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 13, 1995, 8:30 AM CDT (13:30 UTC)
Expired
May 13, 1995, 9:00 AM CDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Smith County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 59 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 1995-05-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 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 1995-05-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 343 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
874 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
343 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
359 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBNA 131331
SVRBNA
TNC159-131400-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
830 AM CDT SAT MAY 13 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  900 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...SMITH COUNTY
 
DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CENTERED 2 MILES
NORTHWEST OF CARTHAGE. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT
35 MILES AN HOUR.
 
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
May 13, 8:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXClay, Jackson, Putnam43 min
May 13, 10:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXWhite64 min
May 13, 12:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXJackson65 min
May 13, 12:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXClay64 min
May 13, 1:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXOverton64 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.