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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Nashville, TN

May 18, 1995Sumner County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at May 18, 1995, 12:43 PM CDT for Sumner County, Tennessee. It was in force for 32 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 18, 1995, 12:43 PM CDT (17:43 UTC)
Expired
May 18, 1995, 1:15 PM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Sumner County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1995-05-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1151 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 12:00Z on 1995-05-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 178 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1151 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
674 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
178 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
189 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.3
Supercell composite
4.9

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBNA 181744
TORBNA
TNC165-181815-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1243 PM CDT THU MAY 18 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  115 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...SUMNER COUNTY
 
AT 1245 PM CDT...A TORANDO WAS INDICATED JUST NORTH OF GALLATIN...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILnDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 18, 7:03 AM CDT, 5 hours 40 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
700 AM CDT THU MAY 18 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....  STATE...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE       ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0620 AM    FRANKLIN                 TN    HIGH WINDS BLEW TREES INTO
05/18/95   WILLIAMSON                     POWER LINES. REPORTED BY
                                          WILLIAMSON CO EMA.

0620 AM    FRANKLIN                 TN    DIME SIZE HAIL IN THE CITY
05/18/95   WILLIAMSON                     OF FRANKLIN.  REPORTED BY
                                          THE WILLIAMSON CO EMA.

BOYD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 18, 6:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXWilliamson65 min
May 18, 9:14 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXHickman, Humphreys, Perry4 hr
May 18, 9:14 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXDickson, Houston, Montgomery4 hr
May 18, 9:58 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXDavidson, Robertson, Sumner3 hr
May 18, 9:58 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXCheatham, Williamson3 hr
May 18, 10:53 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXStewart3 hr
May 18, 11:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCheatham37 min
May 18, 12:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXWilliamson28 min
May 18, 12:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDavidson65 min
May 18, 12:24 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXDavidson13 min
May 18, 12:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXSumner62 min
May 18, 12:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXWilson60 min
May 18, 12:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXTrousdale43 min
May 18, 1:00 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXMacon33 min
May 18, 1:12 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXSmith21 min
May 18, 1:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXClay, Jackson57 min
May 18, 1:36 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXClay39 min
May 18, 3:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDickson, Montgomery42 min
May 18, 3:12 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXHickman, Lewis63 min
May 18, 3:32 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXMaury43 min
May 18, 3:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXPerry, Wayne52 min
May 18, 3:54 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXPerry, Wayne51 min
May 18, 3:58 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXStewart32 min
May 18, 4:03 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXMarshall, Williamson42 min
May 18, 4:14 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXMaury31 min
May 18, 4:25 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXLawrence, Lewis50 min
May 18, 4:26 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXBedford, Rutherford49 min
May 18, 4:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXHouston, Humphreys64 min
May 18, 4:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXStewart64 min
May 18, 4:52 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXGiles, Maury68 min
May 18, 5:00 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXCannon45 min
May 18, 5:13 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXMarshall47 min
May 18, 5:20 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXDeKalb, Warren40 min
May 18, 5:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDickson48 min
May 18, 5:41 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXLincoln64 min
May 18, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXCheatham45 min
May 18, 5:48 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXWhite42 min
May 18, 5:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBedford41 min
May 18, 5:56 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXBedford49 min
May 18, 5:59 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXRobertson61 min
May 18, 6:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXLawrence, Lewis49 min
May 18, 6:15 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXFranklin60 min
May 18, 6:22 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXCoffee53 min
May 18, 6:24 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXFranklin51 min
May 18, 6:36 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXCheatham, Dickson, Williamson54 min
May 18, 6:38 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXWarren52 min
May 18, 6:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDavidson45 min
May 18, 6:51 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXDavidson54 min
May 18, 6:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXWilson67 min
May 18, 6:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXGiles, Maury62 min

Nearby

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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.