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Tornado Warning 44, NWS Nashville, TN

July 3, 1995Giles County, Maury County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Jul 3, 1995, 5:48 PM CDT for Giles County, Maury County, Tennessee. It was in force for 42 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 3, 1995, 5:48 PM CDT (22:48 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 1995, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Giles County, TN, Maury County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 90 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: 92 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -173 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 891 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBNA 032247
TORBNA
TNC055-119-032330-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
548 PM CDT MON JUL 3 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...NORTHERN GILES COUNTY...SOUTHERN MAURY COUNTY
 
AT 548 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR THE MAURY...
GILES COUNTY LINE NEAR STIVERSVILLE MOVING EAST NEAR 30 MILES AN HOUR.
 
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
F<LOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 3, 4:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Decatur	37 min
Jul 3, 4:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Perry	43 min
Jul 3, 4:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lewis	41 min
Jul 3, 5:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence	38 min
Jul 3, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Maury	48 min
Jul 3, 5:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lewis	25 min
Jul 3, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Marshall	43 min
Jul 3, 6:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Franklin, Lincoln	56 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.