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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Nashville, TN

May 18, 1995Giles County, Lawrence County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at May 18, 1995, 7:12 PM CDT for Giles County, Lawrence County, Tennessee. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 18, 1995, 7:12 PM CDT (00:12 UTC)
Expired: May 18, 1995, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Giles County, TN, Lawrence County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 116 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: 1185 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 942 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 371 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 460 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.0
Supercell composite: 17.4

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBNA 190012
TORBNA
TNC055-099-190115-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
712 PM CDT THU MAY 18 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  815 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...GILES COUNTY...LAWRENCE COUNTY
 
AT 705 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED...AND A SPOTTER-REPORTED...A TORNADO
NEAR GREEN HILL..ALABAMA...HEADED EAST NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH TOWARD SOUTHE
PARTS OF LAWRENCE AND GILES COUNTY. THIS TORNADO WILL PASS NEAR
LORETTO AND PULASKI
 
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURLE.
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 18, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Marshall	68 min
May 18, 7:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Davidson	3 hr
May 18, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Overton	57 min
May 18, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Smith	57 min
May 18, 7:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	DeKalb, Smith	67 min
May 18, 8:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Putnam	43 min
May 18, 8:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Bedford, Coffee	54 min
May 18, 8:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Putnam	54 min
May 18, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Lawrence	50 min
May 18, 8:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Warren	52 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.