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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 134, NWS Nashville, TN

June 12, 1996Coffee County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1996, 5:03 PM CDT for Coffee County, Tennessee. It was in force for 57 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 12, 1996, 5:03 PM CDT (22:03 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 1996, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Coffee County, TN

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 12, 5:20 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Southwest Sections, 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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 85 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: 248 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -69 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 842 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 312 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 309 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.6

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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 12, 2:27 PM CDT, 2 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 2:27 PM CDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
215 PM CDT WED JUN 12 1996

WK OUTFLO BNDRYS POSITIONED ACRS FA S OF BNA WAS FOCUS FOR TSTM
DVLPMT THIS AFTN FM NR BNA-SWD ACRS MID TN. MAIN FCST PROBLEM THRU
FCST PDS WL BE CHCS FOR TSTMS THRU FRI.

H5 LO STIL PROGGED BY MDLS TO CONT TO FILL AND MV NEWD THRU GT LKS
AND BLV THAT MAIN PCPN CHCS FOR NXT COUPLE OF DAYS WL BE DUE TO LEFT
OVR MOISTURE PRESENT AND MVMT OF S/W SEWD TWD FA TNGT THRU MO.

ATTM AM MORE INCLINED TO BLV FAN GUID FOR PCPN FCST FOR FA DUE TO
TSTMS THAT DVLPD TDA AND NGMS CONTD DRY BIAS. AM IN FAVOR W/GOING FCST
FOR THU AND EVEN RECOMMEND AT LEAST A SLGT CHC FOR FRI DUE TO LO LVL
MOISTURE PRESENT...HI THETA-E VALUES AND WK VORT LOBE FCST TO MV THRU
TN BY ERLY FRI.

AS FAR AS TEMPS ARE CONCERNED...MDLS IN CLOSE AGREEMENT AND WL GO ALNG
W/THIS SOLUTION.
.
TROUTMAN

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 12, 4:20 PM CDT, 43 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
411 PM CDT WED JUN 12 1996

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1110 PM    DOVER                     TN   WIND DAMAGE
06/11/96   STEWART                        NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER
                                          LINES DOWN WITHIN THE CITY
                                          LIMITS OF DOVER TN.

1205 AM    ERIN                      TN   WIND DAMAGE
06/12/96   HOUSTON                        HOUSTON CO SHERIFFS OFFICE
                                          REPORTED NUMEROUS TREES
                                          DOWN IN THE CITY OF ERIN.

BOYD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 11, 10:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Stewart	67 min
Jun 11, 11:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Houston, Montgomery	69 min
Jun 11, 11:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson	55 min
Jun 12, 1:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Humphreys	47 min
Jun 12, 4:44 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Cannon, Warren	3 hr

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.