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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 152, NWS Nashville, TN

July 8, 1996Benton County, Houston County, Humphreys County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1996, 1:47 PM CDT for Benton County, Houston County, Humphreys County, Tennessee. It was in force for 58 min. 4 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: Jul 8, 1996, 1:47 PM CDT (18:47 UTC)
Expired: Jul 8, 1996, 2:45 PM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Benton County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
Jul 8, 1:55 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Countywide, TN
Jul 8, 1:55 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Sawyers Mill, TN
Jul 8, 2:05 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Waverly, TN
Jul 8, 2:14 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Northern 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

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 239 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: 2230 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -99 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1203 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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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 Jul 8, 9:24 AM CDT, 4 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 9:24 AM CDT, 4 hours 23 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 8, 1:06 PM CDT, 41 minutes 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
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	Humphreys, Perry	33 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, 2:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson, Hickman	59 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.