Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Nashville, TN

Issued

Jan 24, 1997, 3:59 PM CST (21:59 UTC)

Expired

Jan 24, 1997, 4:45 PM CST

In force

46 min

Issued by

NWS Nashville, TN

Area

Whole counties

Counties Giles County, TN, Lawrence County, TN

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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TNC055-099-242245-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
359 PM CST FRI JAN 24 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  445 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...GILES COUNTY...EASTERN LAWRENCE COUNTY
 
AT 357 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
DEVELOPING JUST SOUTH OF LAWRENCEBURG AND ANOTHER ONE 15 MILES SOUTH OF
LAWRENCEBURG. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT AROUND 35 MPH...AND
WILL REACH LYNNVILLE AND THE PULASKI AREAS BY 440 PM. YOU SHOULD TAKE
COVER IMMEDIATELY.
 
A TORNADOh WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
 
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NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jan 24, 1:55 PM CST, 2 hours 4 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
155 PM CST FRI JAN 24 1997

IN SHORT TERM...SCT CONVECTN BEGINNING TO FIRE ALONG PRE-FRONTAL TROF
EXTDG FM MKL-CBM-MEI. 19Z ADAP REVEALS AMS OVR MID TN DESTABILIZING IN
A HURRY. VIS SATLT IMAGERY SHOWS SCT/BKN CLDS PRECEDING CONVECTN WHILE
OKO PROFILER SHOWS WLY MID/UPR LVL WNDS ADVECTG COLDER AIR ALOFT. THUS
AMS SHOULD CONT TO DESTABLIZ FURTHER. THRFR FEEL THAT SCT/NMRS
SHWRS/TSTMS XPTD OVR MID TN LATE THIS AFTN AND EARLY TNGT. A FEW TSTMS
WL LIKELY BE ACCOMPANIED BY LARGE HAIL/WND GSTS 60+ KTS.

MDLS PROGGD CDFNT TO CROSS MID TN THIS EVE...EXITG PLATEAU BY 06Z.
BEHIND SFC FNT...XPCT NO MORE THAN DZ-UNTIL PRE-DAWN HRS. LIKE IDEA OF
SKIES CLRG OUT LATE TNGT BTWN 09-12Z. FOR SAT...DESPITE PDS OF
SUNSHINE...TEMPS WL HAVE A HARD TIME RECOVERING FM EARLY MORNING LOWS.
ATTM FAVOR AVN MOS NUMBERS FOR TNGT/SAT.

AS HIGH BUILDS INTO RGN SAT NIGHT...WNDS WL SUBSIDE ALLOWG FOR GOOD
RADIATIONAL CONDITIONS. MOS TEMPS LOOK TO BE IN THE BALLPARK. S/W IN NW
FLOW ALOFT WL DIVE ACRS CNTRL PLAINS INTO MID MS VLY SUN. THIS WEA
FEATURE WL SPRD HIGH LVL CLDS OVR MID-SOUTH. BLV NGM FOUS DATA HAS GOOD
HANDL ON MSTR INCR. HIGH LVL CLDS WL LIKELY SUBDUE TEMP RISE ON
SUN...PREFER TEMPS OFFERED BY NGM MOS.

BHM ISSUING WARNGS ATTM FOR NW AL. STORM S OF LEXINGTON TN LOOKING
HEALTHIER WITH EACH SCAN.
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BNA 36/40/20/38 600-

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.