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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Nashville, TN

March 28, 1997Putnam County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 28, 1997, 10:05 PM CST for Putnam County, Tennessee. It was in force for 40 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: Mar 28, 1997, 10:05 PM CST (04:05 UTC)
Expired: Mar 28, 1997, 10:45 PM CST
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Putnam County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 28, 10:05 PM CST	Hail 1.75	Silver Pt, TN
Mar 28, 10:05 PM CST	Hail 1.75	Baxter, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 28, 9:45 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 99 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: 1331 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1544 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 223 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 390 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.1
Supercell composite: 11.6

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The text

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

871 
WUUS1 KBNA 290405 RRA
SVRBNA
TNC141-290445-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1005 PM CST FRI MAR 28 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...PUTNAM COUNTY
 
AT 1003 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN
NORTHERN DEKALB COUNTY ALONG CENTER HILL LAKE. THE STORM WAS MOVING
NORTHEAST AT AROUND 40 MPH...AND WILL REACH HICKEY BY 1015 PM AND
COOKEVILLE BY 1030 PM. YOU SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
 
TT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 28, 6:00 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Robertson	45 min
Mar 28, 6:16 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Sumner	44 min
Mar 28, 6:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton	41 min
Mar 28, 6:22 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Davidson, Wilson	38 min
Mar 28, 6:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Houston, Humphreys	44 min
Mar 28, 6:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Decatur	56 min
Mar 28, 6:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Perry	39 min
Mar 28, 6:55 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Dickson, Humphreys	50 min
Mar 28, 7:01 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Benton, Decatur	44 min
Mar 28, 7:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lewis	43 min
Mar 28, 7:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham	51 min
Mar 28, 7:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman, Maury	44 min
Mar 28, 7:43 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson	47 min
Mar 28, 7:54 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Wayne	51 min
Mar 28, 8:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Sumner, Wilson	44 min
Mar 28, 8:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Williamson	49 min
Mar 28, 8:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Macon, Trousdale	50 min
Mar 28, 8:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford	44 min
Mar 28, 8:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence	49 min
Mar 28, 8:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Smith	36 min
Mar 28, 9:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Marshall	43 min
Mar 28, 9:06 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Smith	54 min
Mar 28, 9:12 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Jackson	48 min
Mar 28, 9:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford, Wilson	37 min
Mar 28, 9:26 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	DeKalb, Wilson	49 min
Mar 28, 9:35 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Giles, Lawrence	40 min
Mar 28, 9:40 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Overton	50 min
Mar 28, 9:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Sumner	31 min
Mar 28, 9:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford	27 min
Mar 28, 10:10 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Putnam	50 min
Mar 28, 10:25 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Coffee, Franklin, Lincoln	50 min
Mar 28, 10:37 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Grundy	38 min
Mar 28, 10:55 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Sequatchie	65 min
Mar 28, 11:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Marion	44 min
Mar 28, 11:16 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Bledsoe	44 min

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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.