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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Nashville, TN

January 18, 1996Giles County, Lawrence County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 18, 1996, 12:59 PM CST for Giles County, Lawrence County, Tennessee. It was in force for 46 min. 2 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: Jan 18, 1996, 12:59 PM CST (18:59 UTC)
Expired: Jan 18, 1996, 1:45 PM CST
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Giles County, TN, Lawrence County, TN

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jan 18, 1:05 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Ethridge, TN
Jan 18, 1:15 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Countywide, 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 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 116 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: 42 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -182 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 742 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 395 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 588 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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TTAA00 KBNA 181901
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TNC055-099-181945-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1259 PM CST THU JAN 18 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  145 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...EASTERN GILES COUNTY...LAWRENCE COUNTY
 
AT 1259 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN EASTERN
LAWRENCE COUNTY NEAR LEOMA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH...AND
WILL REACH PULASKI BY 120 PM. YOU SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONPALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
 
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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 Jan 18, 8:45 AM CST, 4 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 18, 8:45 AM CST, 4 hours 14 minutes before

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845 AM CST THU JAN 18 1996

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 18, 10:37 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton, Houston, Stewart	68 min
Jan 18, 1:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson	51 min
Jan 18, 1:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford, Wilson	57 min
Jan 18, 2:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Sumner	57 min
Jan 18, 2:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson	48 min
Jan 18, 3:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cannon	59 min
Jan 18, 4:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Putnam	64 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.