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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 168, NWS Nashville, TN

May 25, 1997Robertson County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 1997, 9:45 PM CDT for Robertson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 60 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 25, 1997, 9:45 PM CDT (02:45 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 1997, 10:45 PM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Robertson County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:44 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 336 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: 1520 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -58 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1120 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 25, 9:07 PM CDT, 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 25, 9:07 PM CDT, 38 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 9:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Montgomery, Stewart	47 min
May 26, 9:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton	28 min
May 26, 9:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Houston, Humphreys	33 min
May 26, 10:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson, Hickman, Humphreys	50 min
May 26, 10:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham	38 min
May 26, 11:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson, Williamson	58 min
May 26, 11:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Marshall, Maury	45 min
May 26, 12:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford	43 min
May 26, 12:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson, Williamson	51 min
May 26, 1:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford, Williamson	45 min
May 26, 2:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Coffee, Rutherford	47 min
May 26, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence, Wayne	50 min
May 26, 3:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Marshall	28 min
May 26, 4:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Lincoln, Moore	42 min
May 26, 4:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Bedford, Lincoln, Moore	36 min
May 26, 4:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence	29 min
May 26, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Franklin, Lincoln	35 min
May 26, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles	43 min

Nearby

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

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.