Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 179, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1997, 2:43 PM CDT for Bedford County, Coffee County, Rutherford County, Tennessee. It was in force for 47 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 1997, 2:43 PM CDT (19:43 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1997, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bedford County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Rutherford County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:43 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 3:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Wartrace, TN | Numerous trees were blown down. |
| May 26, 3:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Christiana, TN | Windows were blown out of homes and a barn was destroyed by strong thunderstorm winds. |
| May 26, 3:10 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Beech Grove, TN | Trees were down in Beech Grove |
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.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 63 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1016 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 693 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
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 26, 2:25 PM CDT, 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 26, 2:25 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 225 PM CDT MON MAY 26 1997 FRNT CREEPING SOUTH THROUGH CNTRL KY HASNT MOVED MUCH SINCE EARLY THIS MORNING AND THIS TREND SHOULD CONTINUE INTO TOMORROW. BOTH ETA AND NGM SHOW FRONT MOVING INTO NRN MID TN IN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS AND MAKING IT TO SRN MID TN BY AFTN. THETA-E RIDGE STILL IN ROUGHLY SAME PLACE AS THIS MORNING SO EXPECT MCS THAT FORMS TONIGHT IN KS/OK TO WORK ITS WAY HERE BY EARLY TUE MORN. IN FACT TONIGHT AND TOMORROW COULD BE VERY SIMILAR TO LAST NIGHT AND TODAY. XPECT SOME CLEARING TONIGHT AS SHOWN BY THE ETA BUT WITH FRONT SO CLOSE ITS HARD TO SAY. PROBABLY MSTLY CLDY WOULD BE BEST WITH A CHC POP. WOULD GO CATAGORICAL TUE WITH LOW CLOSING IN AND GOOD UVV AT BOTH H8 AND H7. MSTR WILL BE DEEP AND AIRMASS REMAINS UNSTABLE SO LOOKING FOR ANOTHER DAY OF GOOD RAINFALL. WOULD LIKE MENTION OF HEAVY RAIN CONSIDERING SLOW MOVEMENT OF FRONT. TSRA SHOULD CONT TUE NIGHT AND WED AS LOW APPROCHES AND AIRMASS STAYS VIRTUALLY THE SAME. WOULD LEAN TOWARDS FWC TEMPS/POPS AS FAN SEEMS TOO COOL/DRY. BNA 64/74/64/77 3886 SW/12
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 26, 12:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes 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.Local storm report, May 26, 1:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes 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 A2M FRANKLIN TN WIND DAMAGE
05/26/97 WILLIAMSON SEVERAL TREES DOWN AROUND
CITY. REPORTED BY COUNTY
EMA.The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Robertson | 60 min |
| 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, 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, 1997Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.