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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Nashville, TN

January 18, 1996Benton County, Houston County, Stewart County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 18, 1996, 10:37 AM CST for Benton County, Houston County, Stewart County, Tennessee. It was in force for 68 min. 2 reports 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: Jan 18, 1996, 10:37 AM CST (16:37 UTC)
Expired: Jan 18, 1996, 11:45 AM CST
In force: 68 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Benton County, TN, Houston County, TN, Stewart County, TN

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jan 18, 10:45 AM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Dover, TN
Jan 18, 11:00 AM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Camden, TN

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.

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 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: 42 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -182 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 742 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 395 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 588 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jan 18, 8:45 AM CST, 1 hour 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 18, 8:45 AM CST, 1 hour 52 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jan 18, 4:45 AM CST, 5 hours 52 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 18, 12:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Lawrence	46 min
Jan 18, 1:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson	51 min
Jan 18, 1:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford, Wilson	57 min
Jan 18, 2:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Sumner	57 min
Jan 18, 2:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson	48 min
Jan 18, 3:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cannon	59 min
Jan 18, 4:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Putnam	64 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 1996 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.