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Tornado Warning 42, NWS Nashville, TN

May 18, 1995Putnam County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at May 18, 1995, 8:21 PM CDT for Putnam County, Tennessee. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 18, 1995, 8:21 PM CDT (01:21 UTC)
Expired: May 18, 1995, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Putnam County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 99 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 190121
TORBNA
TNC141-190215-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
821 PM CDT THU MAY 18 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  915 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...PUTNAM COUNTY
 
AT 815 PM CDT...A TORNADO WAS INDICATED JUST SOUTH OF COOKEVILLE AND WAS
MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. STATE EOC ALSO REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD
IN THIS SAME GENERAL AREA ONLY A FEW MINUTES EARLIER.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING.  AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH
OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
 
 
 
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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, 7:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Giles, Lawrence	63 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, 8:25 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.