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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Nashville, TN

May 14, 1995Cheatham County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1995, 4:48 AM CDT for Cheatham County, Tennessee. It was in force for 42 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 14, 1995, 4:48 AM CDT (09:48 UTC)
Expired
May 14, 1995, 5:30 AM CDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Cheatham County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 46 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 1995-05-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3482 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 00:00Z on 1995-05-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 291 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
3482 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
806 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
291 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
359 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
6.4
Supercell composite
30.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBNA 140948
SVRBNA
TNC021-043-085-141030-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
448 AM CDT SUN MAY 14 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...CHEATHAM COUNTY...DICKSON COUNTY...HUMPHREYS COUNTY
 
AT 445 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING SOUTHWEST FROM KINGSTON SPRINGS...TO
DICKSON...THEN TO WAVERLY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT AROUND 45
MPH. YOU SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
 
TT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 14, 2:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXStewart32 min
May 14, 3:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXHouston, Montgomery41 min
May 14, 3:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCheatham, Robertson68 min
May 14, 3:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDickson, Humphreys68 min
May 14, 4:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDavidson, Sumner50 min
May 14, 4:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMacon, Trousdale, Wilson50 min
May 14, 4:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXClay, Jackson, Smith38 min
May 14, 4:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDickson, Humphreys42 min
May 14, 4:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDavidson, Wilson32 min
May 14, 5:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXOverton43 min
May 14, 5:09 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXDavidson, Wilson3 hr
May 14, 5:09 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXCheatham3 hr
May 14, 5:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDeKalb, Putnam43 min
May 14, 5:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCannon, DeKalb, Putnam63 min
May 14, 5:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXRutherford63 min
May 14, 6:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXWilson45 min
May 14, 6:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMontgomery, Stewart64 min
May 14, 6:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXWhite63 min
May 14, 7:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXHickman, Humphreys, Perry66 min
May 14, 7:13 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXRutherford, Williamson2 hr
May 14, 7:36 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDickson69 min
May 14, 7:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXWayne60 min
May 14, 8:01 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXDavidson, Williamson3 hr
May 14, 8:01 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXCannon, DeKalb, White3 hr
May 14, 8:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXWarren41 min
May 14, 9:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXFranklin66 min
May 14, 4:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXHouston, Stewart40 min
May 14, 4:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMontgomery65 min
May 14, 5:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXHouston, Stewart30 min
May 14, 5:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDickson58 min
May 14, 5:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCheatham68 min
May 14, 5:55 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXMontgomery, Robertson50 min
May 14, 5:58 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXCheatham47 min
May 14, 6:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXHouston53 min
May 14, 6:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDickson49 min
May 14, 6:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCheatham, Williamson63 min

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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.