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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Nashville, TN

March 7, 1995Sumner County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Mar 7, 1995, 1:15 PM CST for Sumner County, Tennessee. It was in force for 30 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Mar 7, 1995, 1:15 PM CST (19:15 UTC)
Expired: Mar 7, 1995, 1:45 PM CST
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Sumner County, TN

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 7, 1:26 PM CST	Tornado F0	Bethpage, TN	A roof was blown off of a general store.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 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-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: 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBNA 071916
TORBNA
TNC165-071945-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
115 PM CST TUE MAR 7 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  145 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...SUMNER COUNTY
 
AT 115 PM CST...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS JUST NORTHWEST OF GALLATIN AND
WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR.
 
TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE BETHPAGE AND WESTMORELAND.
 
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
Mar 7, 1:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Sumner	43 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
Mar 7, 4:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wilson	58 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.