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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 6, 1996, 3:24 PM CST for Wayne County, Tennessee. It was in force for 51 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
- Mar 6, 1996, 3:24 PM CST (21:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 6, 1996, 4:15 PM CST
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wayne County, TN
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 747 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 87 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -292 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -134 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Mar 6, 2:46 PM CST, 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 6, 2:46 PM CST, 38 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 215 PM CST WED MAR 6 1996 XPCT TSTMS TO AGAIN DVLP AND MV THRU FA THIS EVE AS CDFNT MVS EWD FASTER IN EVE HRS...MAKING IT TO BNA ARND 00Z AND INTO PLATEAU(CSV) AREA BY ARND 03Z. FCST PROBLEMS THIS EVE WL BE SVR POTENTIAL FOR FA AND POSSIBILITY OF FLOODING AS TSTMS MV THRU. FFG VALUES ARE LO W/VALUES FOR 1 HR ARND .5 TO .7 INCH. WUD LIKE TO KEEP FLASH FLD WATCH FOR FA DUE TO COPIOUS RAINS THAT HV PRVS OCCURRED AND POSSIBILITY OF FURTHER HVY RNS. AFT FNT PASSES THRU...STG CAA WL SWIFTLY MV SE INTO FA OVRNGT W/ H7 MOISTURE RMNG ACRS FA THRU DAY ON THU...SO AFT COORDINATION W/MEM WL GO ALNG W/UP TO TWO INCHES FOR NRN MID TN INCLUDING BNA AREA. AN INCH OR LESS WL DO FOR AREAS S OF BNA. PCPN SHUD CHG OVR TO SNOW BY AFTN ALNG PLATEAU ZNS. WL GO CLOSE TO NGM ON TEMPS AND PCPN THRU FCST PDS W/AVN TEMPS FOR THU NGT LUKG BETTER. TROUTMAN
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 6, 11:51 AM CST, 3 hours 33 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Mar 6, 12:05 PM CST, 3 hours 19 minutes before
TNZ005>011-022>033-055>065-075>082-093>098-062300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1205 PM CST WED MAR 6 1996 ...SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ACROSS MIDDLE TENNESSEE... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TONIGHT FOR MUCH OF TENNESSEE... A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS IS IN PLACE ACROSS THE TENNESSEE VALLEY EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. A STRONG COLD FRONT EXTENDING SOUTHWEST FROM ALONG THE OHIO RIVER INTO WESTERN TENNESSEE. THIS FRONT WILL MOVE EAST INTO MIDDLE TENNESSEE BY THIS EVENING AND WILL SET THE STAGE FOR A POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. IT APPEARS AT THIS TIME THAT THE HIGHEST RISK FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL OCCUR BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EARLY EVENING ESPECIALLY IN SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. SINCE THE AIRMASS IS SO MOIST AND UNSTABLE...HEAVY RAINFALL WILL OCCUR WITH THE STORMS. THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THAT PART OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE ALONG AND EAST OF A LINE FROM SPRINGFIELD TO DICKSON TO PARSONS IN DECATUR COUNTY. MOST OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE HAS RECEIVED A GOOD SOAKING THE PAST 24 HOURS. AN ADDITIONAL 2 INCHES OF RAIN WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS COULD OCCUR LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT. SINCE THE SOIL IS NEARLY SATURATED...THE HEAVY RAINFALL WILL QUICKLY BECOME RUN-OFF RESULTING IN RAPIDLY RISING CREEKS AND STREAMS. PERSONS LIVING IN FLASH FLOOD PRONE AREAS SUCH AS LOW LYING SPOTS OR AREAS WHERE DRAINAGE IS POOR WILL NEED TO MONITOR THEIR LOCAL CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO HEAD FOR HIGHER GROUND IF RAPIDLY RISING WATER IS OBSERVED. SINCE THE THREAT OF FLOODING RAINS WILL BE HIGHEST DURING THE DARKNESS HOURS...MOTORISTS WILL NEED TO BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR PLACES WHERE HIGH WATER CROSSES THE ROAD. REMEMBER THAT MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR WHEN PEOPLE TRY TO CROSS FLOODED BRIDGES OR UNDERPASSES AND BECOME TRAPPED IN THEIR CARS. TROUTMAN
Special weather statement, Mar 6, 12:06 PM CST, 3 hours 18 minutes before
TNZ005>011-022>033-055>065-075>082-093>098-062300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1205 PM CST WED MAR 6 1996 ...SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ACROSS MIDDLE TENNESSEE... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TONIGHT FOR MUCH OF TENNESSEE... A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS IS IN PLACE ACROSS THE TENNESSEE VALLEY EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. A STRONG COLD FRONT EXTENDING SOUTHWEST FROM ALONG THE OHIO RIVER INTO WESTERN TENNESSEE. THIS FRONT WILL MOVE EAST INTO MIDDLE TENNESSEE BY THIS EVENING AND WILL SET THE STAGE FOR A POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. IT APPEARS AT THIS TIME THAT THE HIGHEST RISK FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL OCCUR BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EARLY EVENING ESPECIALLY IN SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. SINCE THE AIRMASS IS SO MOIST AND UNSTABLE...HEAVY RAINFALL WILL OCCUR WITH THE STORMS. THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THAT PART OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE ALONG AND EAST OF A LINE FROM SPRINGFIELD TO DICKSON TO PARSONS IN DECATUR COUNTY. MOST OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE HAS RECEIVED A GOOD SOAKING THE PAST 24 HOURS. AN ADDITIONAL 2 INCHES OF RAIN WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS COULD OCCUR LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT. SINCE THE SOIL IS NEARLY SATURATED...THE HEAVY RAINFALL WILL QUICKLY BECOME RUN-OFF RESULTING IN RAPIDLY RISING CREEKS AND STREAMS. PERSONS LIVING IN FLASH FLOOD PRONE AREAS SUCH AS LOW LYING SPOTS OR AREAS WHERE DRAINAGE IS POOR WILL NEED TO MONITOR THEIR LOCAL CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO HEAD FOR HIGHER GROUND IF RAPIDLY RISING WATER IS OBSERVED. SINCE THE THREAT OF FLOODING RAINS WILL BE HIGHEST DURING THE DARKNESS HOURS...MOTORISTS WILL NEED TO BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR PLACES WHERE HIGH WATER CROSSES THE ROAD. REMEMBER THAT MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR WHEN PEOPLE TRY TO CROSS FLOODED BRIDGES OR UNDERPASSES AND BECOME TRAPPED IN THEIR CARS. TROUTMAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 1:47 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Lincoln | 3 hr |
| Mar 6, 9:21 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton, Houston | 54 min |
| Mar 6, 10:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Humphreys | 53 min |
| Mar 6, 10:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman | 51 min |
| Mar 6, 1:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lincoln | 45 min |
| Mar 6, 1:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Moore | 45 min |
| Mar 6, 1:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Franklin | 46 min |
| Mar 6, 1:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Grundy, Marion | 50 min |
| Mar 6, 4:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lawrence | 42 min |
| Mar 6, 4:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Lawrence | 52 min |
| Mar 6, 4:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles | 54 min |
| Mar 6, 4:45 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Giles | 45 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.