Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Nashville, TN

Issued

Jan 24, 1997, 2:46 PM CST (20:46 UTC)

Expired

Jan 24, 1997, 3:30 PM CST

In force

44 min

Issued by

NWS Nashville, TN

Area

Whole counties

Counties Benton County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Stewart County, 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.

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TNC081-083-085-161-005-242130-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
246 PM CST FRI JAN 24 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  330 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...HICKMAN COUNTY...HOUSTON COUNTY...HUMPHREYS COUNTY
   ...STEWART COUNTY
 
IN WEST TENNESSEE
 
   ...BENTON COUNTY
 
A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE NORTHEAST AT 30
MILES AN HOUR. AT 245 PM...THIS LINE EXTENDED FROM NEAR DOVER TO CAMDEN
AND SOUTHEAST TO LINDEN. THE COMMUNITIES OF ERIN...WAVERLY...AND
CENTERVILLE WILL BE AFFECTED BY 315 PM. LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THESE
STORMS.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
 
CBD

NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jan 24, 1:55 PM CST, 51 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
155 PM CST FRI JAN 24 1997

IN SHORT TERM...SCT CONVECTN BEGINNING TO FIRE ALONG PRE-FRONTAL TROF
EXTDG FM MKL-CBM-MEI. 19Z ADAP REVEALS AMS OVR MID TN DESTABILIZING IN
A HURRY. VIS SATLT IMAGERY SHOWS SCT/BKN CLDS PRECEDING CONVECTN WHILE
OKO PROFILER SHOWS WLY MID/UPR LVL WNDS ADVECTG COLDER AIR ALOFT. THUS
AMS SHOULD CONT TO DESTABLIZ FURTHER. THRFR FEEL THAT SCT/NMRS
SHWRS/TSTMS XPTD OVR MID TN LATE THIS AFTN AND EARLY TNGT. A FEW TSTMS
WL LIKELY BE ACCOMPANIED BY LARGE HAIL/WND GSTS 60+ KTS.

MDLS PROGGD CDFNT TO CROSS MID TN THIS EVE...EXITG PLATEAU BY 06Z.
BEHIND SFC FNT...XPCT NO MORE THAN DZ-UNTIL PRE-DAWN HRS. LIKE IDEA OF
SKIES CLRG OUT LATE TNGT BTWN 09-12Z. FOR SAT...DESPITE PDS OF
SUNSHINE...TEMPS WL HAVE A HARD TIME RECOVERING FM EARLY MORNING LOWS.
ATTM FAVOR AVN MOS NUMBERS FOR TNGT/SAT.

AS HIGH BUILDS INTO RGN SAT NIGHT...WNDS WL SUBSIDE ALLOWG FOR GOOD
RADIATIONAL CONDITIONS. MOS TEMPS LOOK TO BE IN THE BALLPARK. S/W IN NW
FLOW ALOFT WL DIVE ACRS CNTRL PLAINS INTO MID MS VLY SUN. THIS WEA
FEATURE WL SPRD HIGH LVL CLDS OVR MID-SOUTH. BLV NGM FOUS DATA HAS GOOD
HANDL ON MSTR INCR. HIGH LVL CLDS WL LIKELY SUBDUE TEMP RISE ON
SUN...PREFER TEMPS OFFERED BY NGM MOS.

BHM ISSUING WARNGS ATTM FOR NW AL. STORM S OF LEXINGTON TN LOOKING
HEALTHIER WITH EACH SCAN.
09

BNA 36/40/20/38 600-

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.