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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Nashville, TN

March 16, 1996Jackson County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Mar 16, 1996, 3:34 PM CST for Jackson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 26 min. 3 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: Mar 16, 1996, 3:34 PM CST (21:34 UTC)
Expired: Mar 16, 1996, 4:00 PM CST
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Jackson County, TN

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
Mar 16, 3:45 PM CST	Hail 1.75	Gainesboro, TN
Mar 16, 3:45 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Countywide, TN
Mar 16, 3:45 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Gainesboro, 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, 9.6 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-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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1365 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 70 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 224 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 286 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBNA 162133
TORBNA
TNC087-162200-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
334 PM CST SAT MAR 16 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  400 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...JACKSON COUNTY
 
AT 325 PM CST...A TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY RADAR JUST NORTH OF MILLTOWN
...IN NORTHERN JACKSON COUNTY...AND WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 16, 12:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Stewart	48 min
Mar 16, 1:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Montgomery	46 min
Mar 16, 1:22 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Montgomery	53 min
Mar 16, 1:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Robertson	51 min
Mar 16, 2:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Sumner	51 min
Mar 16, 2:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Macon	50 min
Mar 16, 3:53 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Overton	37 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.