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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Nashville, TN

June 9, 1996Wilson County, Tennessee

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.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 9, 3:35 AM CDTThunderstorm WindCountywide, TN
Jun 9, 3:35 AM CDTTornado F1Lebanon, 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 1996-06-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 10 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 1996-06-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -17 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
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

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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 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 74/60/76 636

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 9:08 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXBenton4 hr
Jun 9, 2:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXRutherford26 min
Jun 9, 4:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXTrousdale30 min
Jun 9, 4:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMacon50 min
Jun 9, 8:51 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXBenton2 hr
Jun 9, 11:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMacon, Trousdale29 min
Jun 9, 11:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXStewart32 min
Jun 9, 12:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMontgomery, Robertson29 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.