Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1996, 11:07 AM CDT for Clay County, Pickett County, Tennessee. It was in force for 53 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 26, 1996, 11:07 AM CDT (16:07 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1996, 12:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clay County, TN, Pickett County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:08 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 11:15 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Byrdstown, 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, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 1346 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1179 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
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 26, 9:12 AM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 26, 9:12 AM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 907 AM CDT SUN MAY 26 1996 OUTFLOW BNDRY LEFT BY PRVS TSTM COMPLEX THAT HAS MVD THRU KY ERLY THIS AM IN NRN MID TN SHUD BE ENUF TO ACCOUNT FOR SCTD TSTM DVLPMT THIS AFTN. MODIFIED 12Z SOUNDING SHOWS MORE MSTR AND MUCH MORE INSTABILITY THAN YDA...SO BLV SCT TSTMS WL FIRE THIS AFTN. TSTMS IN CENTRAL KY MOVG SWD AND DEVELOPING BACK SLIGHTLY TWD THE WEST MAY CLIP NORTHEASTERN MID TN ZONES B$Y LATE MORN...OTRW ACTIVITY SHUD HOLD OFF UNTIL LATER. CURRENT ZNS LUK GUD ATTM AND RECOMMEND LTL IN CHGS TO THEM. TROUTMAN/GOSS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 1:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon | 50 min |
| May 26, 2:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford | 28 min |
| May 26, 2:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb, Putnam | 52 min |
| May 26, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Overton | 53 min |
| May 26, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Grundy, Sequatchie | 43 min |
| May 26, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Sumner, Wilson | 54 min |
| May 26, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Macon, Smith, Trousdale | 44 min |
| May 26, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Coffee | 46 min |
| May 26, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford | 51 min |
| May 26, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Warren | 53 min |
| May 26, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wilson | 49 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.