Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 1996, 8:27 PM CDT for Humphreys County, Perry County, Tennessee. It was in force for 33 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
- Jul 7, 1996, 8:27 PM CDT (01:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 1996, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Humphreys County, TN, Perry County, TN
The radar
The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 8:50 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Waverly, 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, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 1207 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1109 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 5.1
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 Jul 7, 7:44 PM CDT, 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 7:44 PM CDT, 43 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 745 PM CDT SUN JUL 7 1996 00Z SOUNDING SHOWS HI INSTABILITY OVR BNA THIS PM. DO NOT BLV THAT THE LN OF TRW MOVG EWD FM WRN TN WL DIE OUT ANY TIME SOON. QUICK LUK AT 12Z MODELS SHOWS THAT NGM IS VERIFYING WELL SO FAR. MOS GUID VALUES LUK REASONABLE...XCPT FOR HI MON. BLV MOS A COUPLE OF DEGREES TOO WM. AS FOR CURNT ZNS...BLV POPS ACRS MID TN...ESP NRN HALF FM TN RIVER TO BNA SHUD BE INCREASED TO AT LEAST 60 PCT. SUGGEST UPPER 80S OR NR 90 DEGREES FOR HI TMRW. OTRW...NO FURTHER CHANGES NEEDED. ROSE
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 7, 3:35 PM CDT, 4 hours 52 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton | 47 min |
| Jul 7, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Decatur | 38 min |
| Jul 7, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wayne | 33 min |
| Jul 7, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman, Lawrence, Lewis | 42 min |
| Jul 7, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson | 42 min |
| Jul 7, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Maury | 55 min |
| Jul 7, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Williamson | 49 min |
| Jul 7, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles | 49 min |
| Jul 7, 9:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman | 38 min |
| Jul 7, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lincoln, Marshall | 41 min |
| Jul 7, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford | 50 min |
| Jul 8, 1:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton, Houston, Humphreys | 58 min |
| Jul 8, 2:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Hickman | 59 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.