Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 7, 1995, 1:02 PM CST for Sumner County, Tennessee. It was in force for 43 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 7, 1995, 1:02 PM CST (19:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 1995, 1:45 PM CST
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sumner County, TN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 1:26 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Bethpage, TN | A roof was blown off of a general store. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 40 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 627 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 326 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 355 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBNA 071903 RRA SVRBNA TNC165-071945- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 102 PM CST TUE MAR 7 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 145 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE ...SUMNER COUNTY AT 100 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO SOUTHERN SUMNER COUNTY NEAR THE CITY OF HENDERSONVILLE. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST NEAR 45 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.
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
Special weather statement, Mar 7, 7:30 AM CST, 5 hours 32 minutes before
TNZ005>010-023>033-056>065-075>078-093>097-071500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 730 AM CST TUE MAR 7 1995 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM CST FOR PERRY COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TODAY FOR ALL OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE AND FOR THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU TODAY AND TONIGHT... AT 725 AM CST...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE IN PORTIONS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE. THE STORMS PRODUCING THE HEAVIEST RAIN WERE ALONG A LINE EXTENDING NORTH FROM ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NASHVILLE NEAR FRANKLIN TENNESSEE...TO ALONG THE KENTUCKY- TENNESSEE BORDER ABOUT 30 MILES NORTH OF NASHVILLE. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...BRIEF STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS AROUND 30 MPH...AND SOME DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. IF YOU ARE NEAR THESE STORMS...YOU SHOULD MOVE INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. FLASH FLOODING WILL BE A POSSIBILITY TODAY AS TWO TO POSSIBLY THREE INCHES OF RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE AS SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS MOVE THROUGH MIDDLE TENNESSEE. THERE WILL ALSO BE THE POTENTIAL FOR STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE BY EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. IF YOU ARE IN THESE AREAS...YOU SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS REGARDING THIS RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER SITUATION. TROUTMAN
Special weather statement, Mar 7, 7:32 AM CST, 5 hours 30 minutes before
TNZ005>010-023>033-056>065-075>078-093>097-071500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 730 AM CST TUE MAR 7 1995 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM CST FOR PERRY COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TODAY FOR ALL OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE AND FOR THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU TODAY AND TONIGHT... AT 725 AM CST...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE IN PORTIONS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE. THE STORMS PRODUCING THE HEAVIEST RAIN WERE ALONG A LINE EXTENDING NORTH FROM ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NASHVILLE NEAR FRANKLIN TENNESSEE...TO ALONG THE KENTUCKY- TENNESSEE BORDER ABOUT 30 MILES NORTH OF NASHVILLE. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...BRIEF STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS AROUND 30 MPH...AND SOME DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. IF YOU ARE NEAR THESE STORMS...YOU SHOULD MOVE INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. FLASH FLOODING WILL BE A POSSIBILITY TODAY AS TWO TO POSSIBLY THREE INCHES OF RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE AS SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS MOVE THROUGH MIDDLE TENNESSEE. THERE WILL ALSO BE THE POTENTIAL FOR STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE BY EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. IRF YOU ARE IN THESE AREAS...YOU SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS REGARDING THIS RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER SITUATION. TROUTMAN
Special weather statement, Mar 7, 11:13 AM CST, 1 hour 49 minutes before
TNZ005>010-023>033-056>065-075>078-093>097-071900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1115 AM CST TUE MAR 7 1995 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TODAY FOR ALL OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE AND FOR THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU TODAY AND TONIGHT... AT 1115 AM...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE WESTERN HALF OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE. THE LEADING EDGE OF THE RAIN WAS STRETCHED FROM NEAR NASHVILLE SOUTHWEST DOWN TO NEAR PULASKI. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WIND...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. THE STORMS WERE MOVING RAPIDLY NORTHEAST NEAR 45 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD MOVES ACROSS THE NASHVILLE METRO AREA BY LUNCHTIME. THE ATMOSPHERE IS RIPE FOR SEVERE WEATHER THROUGH THIS EVENING SO REMEMBER TO KEEP ABREAST OF THE WATHER SITUATION BY MONITORING NOAA WEATHER RADIO...TV...OR LOCAL RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...TORNADO...OR FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Mar 7, 11:15 AM CST, 1 hour 47 minutes before
TNZ005>010-023>033-056>065-075>078-093>097-071900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1115 AM CST TUE MAR 7 1995 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TODAY FOR ALL OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE AND FOR THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU TODAY AND TONIGHT... AT 1115 AM...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE WESTERN HALF OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE. THE LEADING EDGE OF THE RAIN WAS STRETCHED FROM NEAR NASHVILLE SOUTHWEST DOWN TO NEAR PULASKI. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WIND...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. THE STORMS WERE MOVING RAPIDLY NORTHEAST NEAR 45 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD MOVES ACROSS THE NASHVILLE METRO AREA BY LUNCHTIME. THE ATMOSPHERE IS RIPE FOR SEVERE WEATHER THROUGH THIS EVENING SO REMEMBER TO KEEP ABREAST OF THE WATHER SITUATION BY MONITORING NOAA WEATHER RADIO...TV...OR LOCAL RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...TORNADO...OR FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Mar 7, 12:30 PM CST, 32 minutes before
TNZ005>010-023>033-056>065-075>078-093>097-071930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1230 PM CST TUE MAR 7 1995 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TODAY FOR ALL OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE AND FOR THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU TODAY AND TONIGHT... AT 1230 PM...A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS MIDDLE TENNESSEE...PARTICULARLY IN THE WESTERN COUNTIES. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED ACROSS WESTERN WILLIAMSON AND WESTERN DAVIDSON COUNTIES...JUST WEST OF FRANKLIN AND NASHVILLE. THIS STORM WAS PRODUCING EXTREMELY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...GUSTY WIND AND SMALL HAIL. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MIDDLE TENNESSEE ARE CAPABLE OF THE THESE SAME TYPE CONDITIONS. THE SHOWERS AND STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST NEAR 45 MILES AN HOUR. THE ATMOSPHERE IS RIPE FOR SEVERE WEATHER THROUGH THIS EVENING SO REMEMBER TO KEEP ABREAST OF THE WATHER SITUATION BY MONITORING NOAA WEATHER RADIO...TV...OR LOCAL RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...TORNADO...OR FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 1:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Sumner | 30 min |
| Mar 7, 2:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Maury | 57 min |
| Mar 7, 3:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Rutherford | 57 min |
| Mar 7, 4:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wilson | 58 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.