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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Nashville, TN

May 18, 1995Stewart County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at May 18, 1995, 3:58 PM CDT for Stewart County, Tennessee. It was in force for 32 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 18, 1995, 3:58 PM CDT (20:58 UTC)
Expired: May 18, 1995, 4:30 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Stewart County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 118 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: 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 182058
TORBNA
TNC161-182130-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
358 PM CDT THU MAY 18 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  430 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...STEWART COUNTY
 
AT 355 PM CDT...A TORNADO WAS INDICATED IN THE NORTHWEST PART OF
STEWART...CROSSING THE LAND BETWEEN THE LAKES AND DOVER AREAS. MOVEMENT
WAS EAST NORTHEAST AT 35 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 POSSI4BLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING 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, 1:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
200 PM CDT THU MAY 18 1995

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

1158 AM    DICKSON COUNTY           TN    TREE FELL ON HOUSE AT WHITE
05/18/95                                  BLUFF.

1225 PM    DAVIDSON COUNTY          TN    EMA REPORTED TREES...TELEPHONE
05/18/95                                  POLES AND WIRES DOWN.

1227 PM    DAVIDSON COUNTY          TN    METRO EOC REPORTED FUNNEL
05/18/95                                  CLOUD/TORNADO AT MADISON.
                                          WIND GUST TO 65 MPH REPORTED
                                          BY STORM SPOTTER IN THE CITY
                                          OF NASHVILLE.

1230-1245 PM  DAVIDSON COUNTY       TN    DAMAGE AT RIVERGATE MALL:
05/18/95                                  SEARS LOST ROOF. ROOF CAVED
                                          IN AT 84 LUMBER. BACK WALL
                                          OF TARGET DEPT STORE
                                          DEMOLISHED. CARS AND A CAMPER
                                          OVERTURNED. STOP SIGN DRIVEN
                                          INTO THE BACK OF A JEEP
                                          CHEROKEE BY HIGH WIND.
                                          CONSTRUCTION SCAFFOLDING
                                          BLOWN DOWN AT CASTNER KNOTT.
                                          SHEET METAL WRAPPED AROUND
                                          HIGH TENSION POWER LINES
                                          AND ASSOCIATED TOWERS.
                                          THESE REPORTS RECEIVED
                                          BY SHERIFF'S OFFICE...HAM
                                          OPERATORS AND PUBLIC.

1252  PM        HENDERSONVILLE     TN     POSSIBLE TORNADO REPORTEDLY
05/18/95        SUMNER COUNTY             CAUSED DAMAGE...INCLUDING
                                          BENT HIGH TENSION TOWERS
                                          AND DOWNED TREES AND POWER
                                          LINES.

APPR. 1 PM CDT   WESTMORELAND       TN    DAMAGE TO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL...
05/18/95                                  ALONG WITH INJURIES.

APPR 1225 PM CDT   MOUNT JULIET  TN       POSSIBLE TORNADO. LARGE
05/18/95           WILSON COUNTY          TREE FNELL ON HOUSE.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 18, 6:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Williamson	65 min
May 18, 9:14 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Hickman, Humphreys, Perry	4 hr
May 18, 9:14 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Dickson, Houston, Montgomery	4 hr
May 18, 9:58 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Davidson, Robertson, Sumner	3 hr
May 18, 9:58 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Williamson	3 hr
May 18, 10:53 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Stewart	3 hr
May 18, 11:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham	37 min
May 18, 12:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Williamson	28 min
May 18, 12:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson	65 min
May 18, 12:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Davidson	13 min
May 18, 12:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Sumner	62 min
May 18, 12:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wilson	60 min
May 18, 12:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Sumner	32 min
May 18, 12:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Trousdale	43 min
May 18, 1:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Macon	33 min
May 18, 1:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Smith	21 min
May 18, 1:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Clay, Jackson	57 min
May 18, 1:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Clay	39 min
May 18, 3:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson, Montgomery	42 min
May 18, 3:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Hickman, Lewis	63 min
May 18, 3:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Maury	43 min
May 18, 3:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Perry, Wayne	52 min
May 18, 3:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Perry, Wayne	51 min
May 18, 4:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Marshall, Williamson	42 min
May 18, 4:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Maury	31 min
May 18, 4:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Lawrence, Lewis	50 min
May 18, 4:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Bedford, Rutherford	49 min
May 18, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Houston, Humphreys	64 min
May 18, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Stewart	64 min
May 18, 4:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Giles, Maury	68 min
May 18, 5:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Cannon	45 min
May 18, 5:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Marshall	47 min
May 18, 5:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	DeKalb, Warren	40 min
May 18, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson	48 min
May 18, 5:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Lincoln	64 min
May 18, 5:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Cheatham	45 min
May 18, 5:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	White	42 min
May 18, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford	41 min
May 18, 5:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Bedford	49 min
May 18, 5:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Robertson	61 min
May 18, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence, Lewis	49 min
May 18, 6:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Franklin	60 min
May 18, 6:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Coffee	53 min
May 18, 6:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Franklin	51 min
May 18, 6:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Dickson, Williamson	54 min
May 18, 6:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Warren	52 min
May 18, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson	45 min
May 18, 6:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Davidson	54 min
May 18, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wilson	67 min
May 18, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Maury	62 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.