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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Nashville, TN

April 20, 1996Wayne County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 20, 1996, 9:05 PM CDT for Wayne County, Tennessee. It was in force for 40 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: Apr 20, 1996, 9:05 PM CDT (02:05 UTC)
Expired: Apr 20, 1996, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Wayne County, TN

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 20, 9:30 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Waynesboro, 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, 2.1 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.

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: 368 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1396 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 137 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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The text

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

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 Apr 20, 7:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 20, 7:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
845 PM CDT SAT APR 20 1996

AGREE WITH MRX THAT TSTM HVY RAINS CUD EASILY POSE A THREAT FOR
MORE LOCALIZED FLOODING OVER AT LEAST PART OF FA TONIGHT (ESPECIALLY
SRN-MOST TIER OF COUNTIES). KOHX ALREADY SHOWING TSTMS FORMING AGAIN
NEAR WAYNESBORO, AS ADDITIONAL TSTM DEVELOPMENT NOTED TO THE SW OVER
NRN MS. MOST STORMS ARE FORMING ALONG FRONTAL BOUNDRY THAT STRETCHES
FROM SERN ARKANSAS TO NEAR MKL. JUST GOT MY FIRST REFL ALARM ON GOOD
OLE NEXRAD, SO WILL CALL IT A WRAP AND SETTLE DOWN IN FRONT OF RADAR
FOR THE REST OF THE EVENING.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 20, 3:29 PM CDT, 5 hours 36 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 20, 10:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Franklin, Lincoln	43 min
Apr 20, 10:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lewis, Maury	43 min
Apr 20, 10:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Williamson	33 min
Apr 20, 10:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Grundy	29 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 1996 Every 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.