Tornado Warning 18, NWS Nashville, TN

Issued

Sep 27, 1996, 4:33 AM CDT (09:33 UTC)

Expired

Sep 27, 1996, 5:00 AM CDT

In force

27 min

Issued by

NWS Nashville, TN

Area

Whole counties

Counties Robertson County, TN, Sumner County, TN

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:37 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.

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.

000 
TTAA00 KBNA 270935
TORBNA
TNC147-165-271000-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
433 AM CDT FRI SEP 27 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...EASTERN ROBERTSON COUNTY...SUMNER COUNTY
 
AT 431 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 5 MILES EAST OF
SPRINGFIELD MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR TOWARDS CROSS PLAINS
AND PORTLAND.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR RO^OM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.
STEIGERWALDT

NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Sep 27, 2:21 AM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
225 AM CDT FRI SEP 27 1996

WHAT A WAY TO COMMENCE A STRING OF MIDS! PREFER NGM MDL SOLN AS IT
APPRS TO HAVE BEST HANDL ON FRNTL MOVEMENT ATTM. STG S/W COUPLED WITH
MSTR-RICH AMS WL CAUSE PDS OF RAIN AND TSTMS ACRS MID TN AND PLATEAU
NEXT 24-30 HRS. DUE TO UNIDIRECTIONAL PROFILE AND SLOW EWD MOVEMENT OF
SFC FNT...COULD EASILY GET TRAING OF TSTMS FOR SVRL HRS. THUS FEEL THAT
A FFA IS NOT OUT-OF-THE-QUESTION FOR WRN MID TN TDY AND FOR ALL OF MID
TN TNGT.

TEMPS CURRENTLY ARE CLOSE TO FWC VALUES AND APPR TO BE ON TRACK FOR TDY.
WITH CFP XPTD IN BNA VCNTY BFR 12Z SAT...BLV AVN MOS MAY HAVE THE RIGHT
IDEA WITH TEMPS IN THE 50S. TEMP ATL LIT HAS DROPPED 8-10 DEGS SINCE FROPA
AT 05Z. WL ALSO LEAN TWD COOLER AVN MOS FOR HIGH TEMPS SAT AS SKIES MAY
NOT CLR UNTIL CLOSE TO SS. NOT MUCH TIME TO VIEW OTHER PROGGS.
09

BNA 80/56/65 9+3

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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.