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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 161, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 1996, 8:00 PM CDT for DeKalb County, Smith County, Tennessee. It was in force for 45 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 21, 1996, 8:00 PM CDT (01:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 1996, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties DeKalb County, TN, Smith County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 63 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
- 1165 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1570 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
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 21, 3:08 PM CDT, 4 hours 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 21, 3:08 PM CDT, 4 hours 52 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jul 21, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson | 45 min |
| Jul 21, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wilson | 53 min |
| Jul 21, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Smith, Trousdale | 51 min |
| Jul 21, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Montgomery | 51 min |
| Jul 21, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford | 40 min |
| Jul 21, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford | 47 min |
| Jul 21, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson | 60 min |
| Jul 21, 9:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Sumner | 59 min |
| Jul 21, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wilson | 69 min |
| Jul 21, 10:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Davidson, Sumner, Wilson | 3 hr |
| Jul 22, 12:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman, Lewis, Maury | 46 min |
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.