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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Nashville, TN

May 16, 1995Putnam County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1995, 2:21 PM CDT for Putnam County, Tennessee. It was in force for 69 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 16, 1995, 2:21 PM CDT (19:21 UTC)
Expired
May 16, 1995, 3:30 PM CDT
In force
69 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Putnam County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 99 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 1995-05-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 59 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1649 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
92 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBNA 161923
SVRBNA
TNC141-162030-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
221 PM CDT TUE MAY 16 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  330 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...PUTNAM COUNTY
 
WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER THE
WESTERN PART OF PUTNAM COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE THROUGH
THE COOKEVILLE AREA. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRIC@AL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
 
END/ORCHHANIAN/N/W.S.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 16, 12:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXHouston, Humphreys37 min
May 16, 12:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMontgomery, Robertson, Stewart45 min
May 16, 1:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDavidson55 min
May 16, 1:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXHickman58 min
May 16, 1:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXHumphreys67 min
May 16, 1:26 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXHumphreys3 hr
May 16, 1:35 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXDavidson3 hr
May 16, 1:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXRutherford, Williamson59 min
May 16, 1:54 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXRutherford3 hr
May 16, 2:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCannon65 min
May 16, 2:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXWarren41 min
May 16, 3:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMaury46 min
May 16, 4:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXLincoln69 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.