Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 27, 1996, 4:01 AM CDT for Maury County, Williamson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 44 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
- Sep 27, 1996, 4:01 AM CDT (09:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 27, 1996, 4:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Maury County, TN, Williamson County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 27, 4:30 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Western 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 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 54 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
- 124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1240 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 335 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
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 Sep 27, 2:21 AM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 27, 2:21 AM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 225 AM CDT FRI SEP 27 1996 WHAT A WAY TO COMMENCE A STRING OF MIDS! PREFER NGM MDL SOLN AS IT APPRS TO HAVE BEST HANDL ON FRNTL MOVEMENT ATTM. STG S/W COUPLED WITH MSTR-RICH AMS WL CAUSE PDS OF RAIN AND TSTMS ACRS MID TN AND PLATEAU NEXT 24-30 HRS. DUE TO UNIDIRECTIONAL PROFILE AND SLOW EWD MOVEMENT OF SFC FNT...COULD EASILY GET TRAING OF TSTMS FOR SVRL HRS. THUS FEEL THAT A FFA IS NOT OUT-OF-THE-QUESTION FOR WRN MID TN TDY AND FOR ALL OF MID TN TNGT. TEMPS CURRENTLY ARE CLOSE TO FWC VALUES AND APPR TO BE ON TRACK FOR TDY. WITH CFP XPTD IN BNA VCNTY BFR 12Z SAT...BLV AVN MOS MAY HAVE THE RIGHT IDEA WITH TEMPS IN THE 50S. TEMP ATL LIT HAS DROPPED 8-10 DEGS SINCE FROPA AT 05Z. WL ALSO LEAN TWD COOLER AVN MOS FOR HIGH TEMPS SAT AS SKIES MAY NOT CLR UNTIL CLOSE TO SS. NOT MUCH TIME TO VIEW OTHER PROGGS. 09 BNA 80/56/65 9+3
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 27, 2:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton, Decatur, Humphreys, Perry | 28 min |
| Sep 27, 3:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman, Lewis, Perry | 39 min |
| Sep 27, 3:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson | 39 min |
| Sep 27, 3:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Montgomery, Robertson | 27 min |
| Sep 27, 3:45 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Robertson | 15 min |
| Sep 27, 3:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham | 41 min |
| Sep 27, 4:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson | 44 min |
| Sep 27, 4:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Robertson | 31 min |
| Sep 27, 4:33 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Robertson, Sumner | 27 min |
| Sep 27, 4:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson | 32 min |
| Sep 27, 5:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Sumner | 68 min |
| Sep 27, 5:41 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Sumner | 2 hr |
| Sep 27, 5:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence | 36 min |
| Sep 27, 6:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Davidson, Williamson | 115 min |
| Sep 27, 6:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson | 28 min |
| Sep 27, 4:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Davidson, Sumner | 2 hr |
| Sep 27, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Sumner | 30 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.