Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 193, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1997, 3:04 PM CDT for Wilson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 41 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
- Jun 2, 1997, 3:04 PM CDT (20:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1997, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wilson County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 27 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
- 70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 526 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBNA 022008 COR SVRBNA TNC189-022045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 304 PM CDT MON JUN 2 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE ...WILSON COUNTY SHORTLY BEFORE 3 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LIKELY PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL WAS LOCATED NEAR STATESVILLE AND NORENE...IN SOUTHEAST WILSON COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT PARTS OF WILSON COUNTY...ESPECIALLY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 40...BETWEEN NOW AND 345 PM CDT. . WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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 Jun 2, 2:12 PM CDT, 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 2:12 PM CDT, 52 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 210 PM CDT MON JUN 2 1997 LTL CHANGE IN THE WEATHER EXPECTED OVER THE NEXT DAY OR SO, EXCEPT FOR A GRADUAL DECREASE IN STCD AFTERNOON TSTMS EACH DAY (AS SLUGGISH 50H LOW LUMBERS EAST). FAN/FWC TEMPS LOOKS REASONABLE. BNA 59/78/59/78
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 12:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Jackson | 3 hr |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.