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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Nashville, TN

May 27, 1996Rutherford County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at May 27, 1996, 3:44 PM CDT for Rutherford County, Tennessee. It was in force for 46 min. 2 reports 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 27, 1996, 3:44 PM CDT (20:44 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 1996, 4:30 PM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Rutherford County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:44 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 27, 3:50 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 65Murfreesboro, TN
May 27, 3:50 PM CDTThunderstorm WindMurfreesboro, 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 36 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 12:00Z on 1996-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1038 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 12:00Z on 1996-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 184 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
1038 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-64 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1108 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
184 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
188 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
2.9

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBNA 272045
TORBNA
TNC149-272130-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
344 PM CDT MON MAY 27 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  430 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...RUTHERFORD COUNTY
 
AT 343 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF
EAGLEVILLE. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST AT AROUND 35 MPH...AND WILL MOVE
INTO THE ROCKVALE AREA BY 4 PM AND TO JUST NORTH OF THE CHRISTIANA AREA
BY 410 PM. YOU SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE O&F STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.
 
TT

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, 2:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXHickman53 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, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.