Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Nashville, TN

Issued

May 26, 1997, 1:15 PM CDT (18:15 UTC)

Expired

May 26, 1997, 2:00 PM CDT

In force

45 min

Issued by

NWS Nashville, TN

Area

Whole counties

Counties Rutherford County, TN, Williamson County, TN

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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TNC149-187-261900-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
115 PM CDT MON MAY 26 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  200 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...RUTHERFORD COUNTY...WILLIAMSON COUNTY
 
AT 112 PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED JUST SOUTH OF FRANKLIN
MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THE STORM WILL LIKELY CONTAIN LARGE
HAIL AND WIND GUSTS NEAR 65 MPH. THE STORMS WILL MOVE CLOSE TO THE
CITIES OF PEYTONSVILLE....COLLEGE GROVE AND SHOULD BE NEAR EAGLEVILLE BY
130 PM AND ROCKVALE BY 135 PM.
 
 
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 26, 2:00 AM CDT, 11 hours 15 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
200 AM CDT MON MAY 26 1997

WK FNT CURRNTLY ACRS CNTRL KY IN GUD AGREEMNT TO SAG SWRD ACRS FA AND
EVENTUALLY JUST TO THE S OF MD TN LN BY 00Z WED.  DEEP MSTR AXIS RMNS
ACRS OH VLY THRU PD BUT NEVER-THE-LESS...PLENTY OF MSTR AND INSTBLTY
RMN ACRS RGN FOR SCT TO NMRS SHWRS AND TSTMS.  XPCT WDPSRD CNVCTN TDY
WITH FOCUSG BNDRY MOVG ACRS AREA.  THINGS SEEM TO BE LEANG MORE TWRD
A SCT NATURE TNGT/TUE BUT MCS DVLPMT NOT OUT OF QUESTN TNGT ACRS AR/MO
WHICH WUD EVENTUALLY SLIDE ALNG FNTL BNDRY INTO W-MD TN (DONT WANT ANY
OF THAT).  IN FACT...CHCS LUK PRETTY GUD FOR JUST THAT SO LKLY NOT A
BAD CALL.  IF MCS DOES FORM TNGT...SUNRISE WILL KILL IT AND XPCT SCT
TRWS TO REDVLP TUE AFTN.

ALL-IN-ALL...FCST NEEDS ONLY SML CHGS.

BNA 81/63/79 665

In the hours before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1258 PM CDT MON MAY 26 1997

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

1130 AM    FRANKLIN                  TN   WIND DAMAGE
05/26/97   WILLIAMSON                     SEVERAL TREES DOWN AROUND
                                          CITY. REPORTED BY COUNTY
                                          EMA.

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1258 PM CDT MON MAY 26 1997

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

1130 A2M    FRANKLIN                  TN   WIND DAMAGE
05/26/97   WILLIAMSON                     SEVERAL TREES DOWN AROUND
                                          CITY. REPORTED BY COUNTY
                                          EMA.

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.