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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 211, NWS Nashville, TN

October 18, 1996Dickson County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 18, 1996, 12:14 AM CDT for Dickson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 46 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
Oct 18, 1996, 12:14 AM CDT (05:14 UTC)
Expired
Oct 18, 1996, 1:00 AM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Dickson County, TN

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Oct 18, 12:30 AM CDTThunderstorm Wind 50Dickson, 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, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 68 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 1996-10-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 567 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 1996-10-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 105 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
567 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1339 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
184 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
2.5

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 17, 11:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXStewart36 min
Oct 17, 11:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXHumphreys30 min
Oct 17, 11:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDecatur44 min
Oct 17, 11:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXPerry, Wayne49 min
Oct 17, 11:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXHickman30 min
Oct 17, 11:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXHumphreys38 min
Oct 18, 12:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXHickman, Lawrence, Lewis46 min
Oct 18, 12:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDavidson, Williamson44 min
Oct 18, 12:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXGiles, Maury44 min
Oct 18, 1:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMarshall25 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.