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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS Nashville, TN

May 24, 1996Putnam County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1996, 9:58 PM CDT for Putnam County, Tennessee. It was in force for 32 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 24, 1996, 9:58 PM CDT (02:58 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 1996, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Putnam County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
May 24, 10:05 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Monterey, 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, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 99 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

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 24, 8:23 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 8:23 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 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, 9:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Marion	56 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.