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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Nashville, TN

May 27, 1996Wayne County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1996, 11:50 PM CDT for Wayne County, Tennessee. It was in force for 40 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 27, 1996, 11:50 PM CDT (04:50 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 1996, 12:30 AM CDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Wayne County, TN

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 202 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 1996-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2600 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 1996-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 119 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2600 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
885 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
119 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
157 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.1
Supercell composite
8.5

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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 May 27, 7:40 PM CDT, 4 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 27, 7:40 PM CDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 27, 10:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBenton30 min
May 27, 10:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXPerry44 min
May 28, 5:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBenton33 min
May 28, 5:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXHouston, Humphreys49 min
May 28, 6:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDickson, Montgomery41 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 1996Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.