Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1996, 3:18 AM CDT for Wilson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 42 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
- Jun 9, 1996, 3:18 AM CDT (08:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 1996, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 42 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 08:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 3:35 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, TN | |
| Jun 9, 3:35 AM CDT | Tornado F1 | 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 nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 27 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 877 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
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 9, 2:18 AM CDT, 1 hour earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 2:18 AM CDT, 1 hour before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
215 AM CDT SUN JUN 9 1996
MDLS IN GUD AGREEMT SHOWG PSBL BREAK IN ACTN TNGT. MD/UPR LVL
LO SHIFG N OF FA TO DRAG DEEP MSTR INTO OH VLY BFOR WRAPG IT BACK
DOWN ACRS MD-STATE. AMPLE MSTR FOR TDY ALONG W/UPR SYSTM AND
SFC BNDRY THAT HAS BEEN MOVG ABT 1 NANO-MPH. CONT HIER POPS
TDY W/ LO POPS TNGT AND PSBL LKLY MON AS DEEP MSTR RTRNS.
BNA 74/60/76 636The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 9:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Benton | 4 hr |
| Jun 9, 2:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford | 26 min |
| Jun 9, 4:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Trousdale | 30 min |
| Jun 9, 4:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Macon | 50 min |
| Jun 9, 8:51 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Benton | 2 hr |
| Jun 9, 11:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Macon, Trousdale | 29 min |
| Jun 9, 11:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Stewart | 32 min |
| Jun 9, 12:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Montgomery, Robertson | 29 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.