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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 16, 1996, 2:55 PM CST for Macon County, Tennessee. It was in force for 50 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
- Mar 16, 1996, 2:55 PM CST (20:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 1996, 3:45 PM CST
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Macon County, TN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 3:10 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Lafayette, 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 1365 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 224 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 286 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 16, 9:35 AM CST, 5 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 16, 9:35 AM CST, 5 hours 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 930 AM CST SAT MAR 16 1996 METEOROLOGICAL SEWER LINE RUNS SMACK DAB THROUGH MIDDLE TN TDY, AS QUASI-STATIONARY FNT LENDS ITSELF TO PERIODS OF RAIN/TSTMS. 500 MB SHEAR AXIS AND ASSOCIATED RAIN SHUD MOVE OUT OF MID-STATE AREA BY NOON. HOWEVER, NEW VORT MAX SHOOTING INTO SWRN KY THIS EVENING, KEEPS US IN A SCTD SHOWER/TSTM ZN. HOPEFULLY WE CAN CLOSE DOWN THE PIPELINE SOMEDAY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 12:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Stewart | 48 min |
| Mar 16, 1:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Montgomery | 46 min |
| Mar 16, 1:22 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Montgomery | 53 min |
| Mar 16, 1:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Robertson | 51 min |
| Mar 16, 2:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Sumner | 51 min |
| Mar 16, 3:34 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Jackson | 26 min |
| Mar 16, 3:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Overton | 37 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.