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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Nashville, TN

May 24, 1996Marion County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1996, 9:49 PM CDT for Marion County, Tennessee. It was in force for 56 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 24, 1996, 9:49 PM CDT (02:49 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 1996, 10:45 PM CDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Marion County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 142 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: 2335 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1646 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KBNA 250251
SVRBNA
TNC115-250345-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
949 PM CDT FRI MAY 24 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE
 
   ...MARION COUNTY
 
AT 945 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR THE TOWN OF ORME
...IN THE EXTREME SOUTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY...AND WILL MOVE SLOWLY
TOWARD THE SOUTH PITTSBURG AREA.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

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 24, 8:23 PM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 8:23 PM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
820 PM CDT FRI MAY 24 1996

FEELING KINDA LIKE MRX ALL OF A SUDDEN (I.E., BEHIND THE EIGHT BALL).
00Z BNA SOUNDING IS HIGHLY UNSTABLE (L.I. -12) AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
HAVE DEVELOPED RAPIDLY OVER THE LAST 20 MINUTES OVER SERN PARTS OF OUR
FA AND IN XTRM NRN ALABMA (N. OF HSV). VIL OF 60 OBSERVED ON STORM N
OF HSV. WILL BE KEEPING A CLOSE EYE ON WX THIS EVENING AND SUGGEST THAT
SOME SORT OF MENTION OF TSTMS BE CONSIDERED FOR MUCH OF MIDDLE TN
TONIGHT.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Marion	47 min
May 24, 9:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Putnam	32 min
May 24, 10:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Franklin	66 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.