Severe Thunderstorm Warning 141, NWS Nashville, TN

Issued

Apr 21, 1997, 4:16 PM CDT (21:16 UTC)

Expired

Apr 21, 1997, 4:45 PM CDT

In force

29 min

Issued by

NWS Nashville, TN

Area

Whole counties

County Coffee County, TN

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TTAA00 KBNA 212116 RRA
SVRBNA
TNC031-212145-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
416 PM CDT MON APR 21 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  445 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...COFFEE COUNTY
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...LIKELY PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...WAS LOCATED 5
MILES NORTHWEST OF MANCHESTER AT ABOUT 415 MPH AND WAS MOVING EAST
AT 30 MPH TOWARD AREAS AROUND SUMMITVILLE.
 
LARGE HAIL HAS ALREADY BEEN REPORTED WITH SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS
THIS AFTERNOON...AND THIS STORM WILL BE NO EXCEPTION AND WILL PRDOUCE
HAIL BETWEEN DIME AND NICKEL SIZE.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
 
 
 
&

NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 21, 2:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
225 PM CDT MON APR 21 1997

AFOS ADAP/RUC SFC ANALYSES SHOW NGM A TAD TOO FAR N WITH MOVMT OF WK
SFC LO OVR W TN ATTM. LO FCST BY NGM TO MOV E ACRS NRN MID STA THIS AFTN
AND ALTHO IT MAY TRACK SLGTLY FARTHER TO THE S...THIS E MOVMT LUKS GUD
WHEN CONSIDERING UPR FLO IS W TO E WITH NXT S/W MOVG RMNG MSTLY OVR KY
LATE THIS AFTN AND ERY TNGT.

GREATEST THREAT OF SVR WX APRS TO BE OVR THE SRN 2/3RDS OF MID STA
THIS AFTN. OVR NW MIDDLE THINGS MORE STABLE AS COOLER AIR FILTERS IN
BHND THE WK SFC LOW.

ALL MDLS FCST DIGGING UPSTREAM S/WV MOVING INTO PACIFIC NW WL CAUSE
DNWSTREAM S/WV TO DIG AND HENCE STRENGTHEN AS IT MOVS ACRS THE TN AREA
ON WED. THIS LAST IN A SERIES OF S/WVS...MORE POTENT THAN THE REST...
WL PROBABLY CAUSE SVR WX TO OUR S...AS MOST OF MID STA SHUD REMAIN IN
MORE STBL AIR TO N OF SL LOW.

IN THE NEAR TERM...EXPECT PRECIP TO END ALL OF MID STA BFR MIDN AS CDFNT
ASSOCD WITH WK SFC LOW MOVS S ACRS THE AREA TNGT. MORE PRECIP EXPECTED
TMW AFTN AS OVERRUNNING OCCURS OVR TN N OF FNT.

BNA 052/066 055/059 10249

STEIGERWALDT

In the hours before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
237 PM CDT MON APR 21 1997

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0235 PM  ,  WAYNE                    TN    0.75 INCH HAIL
04/21/97   WAYNESBORO                     SHERIFF'S OFFICE REPORTED
                                          DIME SIZE HAIL.

END/ORCHANIAN

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

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