Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 7, 1995, 4:02 PM CST for Wilson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 7, 1995, 4:02 PM CST (22:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 1995, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wilson County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 27 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 072204 RRA SVRBNA TNC189-072300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 402 PM CST TUE MAR 7 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE ...WILSON COUNTY AT ABOUT 4 PM DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR CEDARS OF LEBANON STATE PARK. THIS STORM WILL MOVE THROUGH THE TOWN OF LEBANON DURING THE HOUR. MOVEMENT OF THE STORM WAS NORTHEAST AT 45 TO 50 MPH. EXPECT LARGE HAIL AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS WITH THIS STORM. 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. END/ORCHANIAN/N.W.S
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, 11:13 AM CST, 4 hours 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, 4 hours 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, 3 hours 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, 1:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Sumner | 43 min |
| 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 |
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.