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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Nashville, TN

May 27, 1996Hickman County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1996, 2:37 AM CDT for Hickman County, Tennessee. It was in force for 53 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 27, 1996, 2:37 AM CDT (07:37 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 1996, 3:30 AM CDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Hickman County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 87 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 1996-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1644 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 1996-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 92 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1644 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-65 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1109 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
163 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
6.6

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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 27, 1:41 AM CDT, 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 27, 1:41 AM CDT, 56 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
140 AM CDT MON MAY 27 1996

EXCITING WX SHAPING UP FOR MID STATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THE EVENING
HOURS AS ATMOSPHERE IS JUICED UP AND PRIMED FOR APPROACHING PLAINS
SHORT WAVE. WILL ISSUE A BRIEF SPS AND MENTION STG/SVR STORM POTENTIAL
THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING FOR MID STATE.

LOOKING AT ETA GRIDDED DATA VERY FAVORABLE SHEAR VECTORS ARE INDICATED
OVER THE AREA THAT THE 94O CONVECTIVE OUTLOOK IS SHOWING MODERATE RISK
FOR.  THIS INCLUDES MUCH OF MID STATE. HIGH CAPES ARE ALSO ACROSS THIS
SAME AREA. BELIEVE SELS HAS GOOD HANDLE ON SITUATION AT THIS TIME.

THINK WE NEED TO MENTION THAT SOME STORMS COULD BE SEVERE THIS AFTERNOON
ANtD EVENING IN FORECAST TEXT. EXPECT ALOT OF FOLKS ARE PLANNING ON BEING
OUTDOORS TODAY AND TONIGHT AND NEED TO BE AWARE OF THIS DEVELOPING WX
SITUATION.

ON-GOING TEMPS AND POPS LOOK REASONABLE.

BOYD

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 26, 9:44 PM CDT, 4 hours 53 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
945 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 1996

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

640 PM     MURFREESBORO              TN   1.25 INCH HAIL NORTH OF
05/26/96   RUTHERFORD                     MURFREESBORO REPORTED
                                          BY SPOTTER.

650 PM     WALTER HILL               TN   1.75 INCH HAIL OR GOLF
05/26/96   RUTHERFORD                     BALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY
                                          SPOTTER.

END/ORCHANIAN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 7:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDeKalb58 min
May 26, 8:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMacon44 min
May 27, 11:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXRobertson, Sumner42 min
May 27, 1:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMacon, Trousdale41 min
May 27, 1:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXTrousdale, Wilson57 min
May 27, 1:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBenton67 min
May 27, 1:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBenton, Houston, Stewart64 min
May 27, 1:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXHumphreys64 min
May 27, 2:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDickson, Montgomery53 min
May 27, 2:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXHickman53 min
May 27, 2:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCheatham, Robertson44 min
May 27, 2:54 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXDavidson, Williamson51 min
May 27, 3:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXLewis, Wayne45 min
May 27, 3:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMaury40 min
May 27, 3:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXRutherford, Sumner, Wilson38 min
May 27, 3:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXGiles, Lawrence, Marshall53 min
May 27, 3:44 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXRutherford46 min
May 27, 4:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBedford, Coffee45 min
May 27, 4:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCannon45 min
May 27, 4:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDeKalb44 min
May 27, 4:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXGrundy53 min
May 27, 5:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXFranklin, Marion50 min
May 27, 5:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXSequatchie, Van Buren50 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.