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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Nashville, TN

May 13, 1995Clay County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 1995, 12:26 PM CDT for Clay County, Tennessee. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 13, 1995, 12:26 PM CDT (17:26 UTC)
Expired
May 13, 1995, 1:30 PM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Clay County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 106 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 131727
SVRBNA
TNC027-131830-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1226 PM CDT SAT MAY 13 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  130 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...CLAY COUNTY
 
DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING OVER
CELINA TENNESSEE IN CLAY COUNTY AT 1225 PM CDT. THIS STORM WILL MOVE
NORTHEAST FROM CELINA AND ACROSS THE DALE HOLLOW RESERVOIR BY 1 PM CDT.
 
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.

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 13, 10:31 AM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1030 AM CDT SAT MAY 13 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....   STATE...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE       ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0905 AM     PUTNAM                   TN    1.25 INCH HAIL IN THE CITY
                                           OF COOKEVILLE.  REPORTED BY
                                           SHERIFFS OFFICE.

0900 AM     JACKSON                  TN    HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS
                                           IN GAINSBORO.  REPORTED
                                           BY SHERIFFS OFFICE.

0910 AM     CLAY                     TN    A TREE WAS BLOWN INTO POWER
                                           LINES IN THE CITY OF CELINA
                                           CAUSING POWER OUTAGES.
                                           REPORTED BY THE TRI COUNTY
                                           ELECTRIC COMPANY.

BOYD



The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 13, 8:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXSmith30 min
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, 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.