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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 1996, 1:32 PM CDT for Franklin County, Tennessee. It was in force for 28 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
- May 6, 1996, 1:32 PM CDT (18:32 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 1996, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Franklin County, TN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 1:35 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Winchester, 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 68 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -278 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 745 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
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 May 6, 9:24 AM CDT, 4 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 6, 9:24 AM CDT, 4 hours 8 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 925 AM CDT MON MAY 6 1996 CONVECTION TRAING ACRS W CNTRL PART OF MID TN ATTM. QUICK LOOK AT UPR AIR ANLYS AND 13Z RUC SHOWS BEST INSTABLILTIY AND LOW LVL MSTR CNVGNC FOCUSG OVR SE MID TN EXTDG WNW INTO W TN. ALL-IN-ALL FCST APPRS TO BE IN GOOD SHAPE. WOULD LIKE TO SEE MENTION OF "RAINFALL HEAVY AT TIMES " IN TEXT OF ZNS. MAY NEED TO LWR TEMPS A CAT ESP ZN GRPS 5 AND 7. WL ISSUE WRKFTO. 09
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 9:34 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Humphreys | 3 hr |
| May 6, 11:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Montgomery | 39 min |
| May 6, 12:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Franklin, Moore | 32 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.