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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Nashville, TN

May 14, 1995Marshall County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at May 14, 1995, 10:00 PM CDT for Marshall County, Tennessee. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 14, 1995, 10:00 PM CDT (03:00 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 1995, 10:45 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Marshall County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 75 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3331 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 761 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 136 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 137 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.5
Supercell composite: 13.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBNA 150301
TORBNA
TNC117-150345-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1000 PM CDT SUN MAY 14 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...MARSHALL COUNTY
 
AT 10 PM A SEVERWE THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS LOCATED
ALONG THE MARSHALL/MAURY COUNTY LINE ABOUT 12 MILES WEST OF LEWISBURG
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
 
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 14, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson, Hickman	46 min
May 14, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman, Maury, Williamson	49 min
May 14, 8:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Marshall	66 min
May 14, 8:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman	49 min
May 14, 8:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Maury	62 min
May 14, 9:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Hickman	29 min
May 14, 9:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Maury	42 min
May 14, 10:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Maury	53 min
May 14, 11:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Marshall	44 min
May 14, 11:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Stewart	51 min
May 15, 12:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Humphreys	53 min
May 15, 1:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman, Perry	45 min
May 15, 1:59 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson, Robertson	3 hr
May 15, 1:59 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Sumner, Wilson	3 hr
May 15, 1:59 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Hickman	3 hr
May 15, 2:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lewis, Perry	53 min
May 15, 3:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cannon, Wilson	29 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.