Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 29, 1996, 2:45 PM CDT for Williamson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 45 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 29, 1996, 2:45 PM CDT (19:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 1996, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Williamson County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 3:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Nolensville, 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 38 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
- 204 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -103 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 983 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 227 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
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 Apr 29, 1:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 29, 1:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 140 PM CDT MON APR 29 1996 BEEN BUSY W/88D...PHONE...ETC. HAVE NOT HAD TIME TO LUK AT ANY DATA AND PROBABLY WONT BE ABLE TO. SORRY!
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 12:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Decatur | 33 min |
| Apr 29, 1:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wayne | 49 min |
| Apr 29, 1:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lawrence | 47 min |
| Apr 29, 2:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lewis, Maury | 55 min |
| Apr 29, 3:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Rutherford | 52 min |
| Apr 29, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wilson | 47 min |
| Apr 29, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Smith, Trousdale | 39 min |
| Apr 29, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Macon | 25 min |
| Apr 29, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Clay | 25 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.