Severe Thunderstorm Warning 155, NWS Nashville, TN

Issued

May 14, 1997, 8:13 PM CDT (01:13 UTC)

Expired

May 14, 1997, 8:45 PM CDT

In force

32 min

Issued by

NWS Nashville, TN

Area

Whole counties

County Pickett County, TN

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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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WUUS1 KBNA 150111 RRA
SVRBNA
TNC137-150145-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
813 PM CDT WED MAY 14 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  845 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST TENNESSEE
 
   ...PICKETT COUNTY
 
AT 807 PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BYRDSTOWN MOVING
EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY CONTAIN HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS
AND WIND GUSTS NEAR 60 MPH AS IT MOVES TOWARD EASTERN PICKETT COUNTY.
 
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
DONT 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 May 14, 2:25 PM CDT, 5 hours 48 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
215 PM CDT WED MAY 14 1997

CDFNT STILL EXPECTED TO SWEEP INTO NWRN PARTS OF OUR AREA LATE TODAY
AND MOVE THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AREA BY MIDNIGHT. NARROW WINDOW
FOR TSTM POTENTIAL DURING LATE AFTERNOON, AS LOW LVLS TRY TO MOISTEN
UP IN ADVANCE OF CDFNT AND SUN REMAINS UP. TEMPS ARE ALREADY
SUFFICIENTLY WARM TO PRODUCE TSTMS, AND LACK OF MOISTURE SEEMS TO BE
THE MAIN PROBLEM. RUC SFC ANALYSES HAVE SHOWN BEST DWPT ADVECTION OVER
SRN PARTS OF OUR AREA, AND WOULD BLV SCTD TSTMS ARE NOT OUT OF THE
QUESTION THERE (WHERE DWPTS MAY APPROACH UPPER 50S JUST BEFORE
FNTL PASSAGE). THUS, WUD PROBABLY GO WITH A 20% CHC FOR "EVENING TSTMS"
NRN MIDDLE TN AND A 30% FOR SRN.

OTHERWISE, EXPECT FNT TO BE EAST OF AREA LATER TONIGHT WITH A WEAK
SECONDARY (DRY) CDFNT ARRIVING THURSDAY AFTERNOON. BIG COOL HIGH
PRES AREA SETTLES IN THURSDAY NIGHT AND ALLOWS FOR A GOOD NIGHT OF
RADIATIONAL COOLING. BASED ON EXPECTED DWPTS AND NR CALM WND, WOULD
PROBABLY UNDERCUT FWC/FAN GUIDANCE FOR 3RD PD AND GO WITH LOWER 40S
OR NR 40 OVER NRN COUNTIES AND MIDDLE 40S SOUTH. FRIDAY LOOKS LIKE
ANOTHER UNSEASONABLY COOL DAY, WITH HIGHS ONLY IN THE MIDDLEf AND UPPER
60S (10 TO 15 DEGS BLO CLIMO!).

FWC TEMPS LOOK TOO WARM FOR THURSDAY AND WOULD PROBABLY GO "65 TO 70"
OVER NRN AREAS AND LOWER 70S SOUTH. OTHER PERIODS LOOK MORE REASONABLE.

BNA 51/69/41/66 2000

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.