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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Nashville, TN

June 3, 1996Wilson County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1996, 8:16 PM CDT for Wilson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 44 min. 1 report 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: Jun 3, 1996, 8:16 PM CDT (01:16 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 1996, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Wilson County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 3, 8:30 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Lebanon, 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 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 Jun 3, 1:42 PM CDT, 6 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 1:42 PM CDT, 6 hours 34 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
145 PM CDT MON JUN 3 1996

SFC BNDRY NR MEM ERY THIS AFTN IN DIFFUSNG STAGE AS NXT CDFNT CURRNTLY
IN IL-MO PROGGD TO TAKE NRLY SAME POSITN BY 12Z TUE AND THEN WRK SLOLY
ACRS FA BY 00Z WED.  UPR TROF AXIS TO STAY PUT SENDG BITS OF ENERGY
TNGT THRU TUE NGT.  AVBLTY OF MSTR AGAIN QUESTN.  MNRH IN THE 50% RANGE
THIS AFTN W/MST RESIDG IN THE LO-LVLS.  INDCTNS ARE THAT THE LO-LVLS
WILL ALSO DRY OUT THRU 36 HRS.  XPCT ANYTHING THAT DVLPS THIS AFTN/TNGT
WILL BE ISOLD AT BST WITH LTL IF ANY XPCTD THRU PDS 2/3.  PD 4 PRESENTS
SOME DIFFERENCES.  AVN PICKG-UP ON POOL ON DEEP MSTR WHICH IT EVENTUALLY
SWEEPS ACRS FA.  NGM/ETA PITTG DRIER SCENERIO.  LO-LVL FLO AGAIN TO TAP
GULF MSTR WED AND BASD ON MOVMT OF UPR FEATURES AND POSITN OF SFC BNDRY
...BLV SML POPS IN ORDR FOR NOW.  NXT RUN MAY MESH LTL BETTR.

               BNA 57/79/57/82 2113

In the hours 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
Jun 3, 7:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson	49 min
Jun 3, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Decatur, Perry	44 min
Jun 3, 7:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wilson	39 min
Jun 3, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Macon, Sumner	50 min
Jun 3, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson	35 min
Jun 3, 8:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford, Williamson	44 min
Jun 3, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Clay, Jackson	46 min
Jun 3, 8:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Jackson, Putnam, Smith	41 min
Jun 3, 9:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Pickett	33 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.