Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Nashville, TN

Issued

Apr 21, 1997, 4:36 PM CDT (21:36 UTC)

Expired

Apr 21, 1997, 5:15 PM CDT

In force

39 min

Issued by

NWS Nashville, TN

Area

Whole counties

Counties Lawrence County, TN, Wayne 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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TTAA00 KBNA 212136 RRA
SVRBNA
TNC099-181-212215-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
436 PM CDT MON APR 21 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  515 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...LAWRENCE COUNTY...WAYNE COUNTY
 
AT ABOUT 430 PM CDT...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM
FIVE MILES NORTHWEST OF WAYNESBORO TO ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF
LAWRENCEBURG.  STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL LIKELY
PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO NEAR 60 MPH.
 
SOME OF THE TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS... INCLUDE WAYNESBORO...
DEERFIELD...SUMMERTOWN AND ETHRIDGE.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 21, 2:25 PM CDT, 2 hours 11 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

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.