Severe Thunderstorm Warning 200, NWS Nashville, TN

Issued

Jun 13, 1997, 2:42 PM CDT (19:42 UTC)

Expired

Jun 13, 1997, 3:30 PM CDT

In force

48 min

Issued by

NWS Nashville, TN

Area

Whole counties

Counties Robertson County, TN, Sumner County, TN

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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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TTAA00 KBNA 131943 RRA
SVRBNA
TNC147-165-132030-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
242 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  330 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...ROBERTSON COUNTY...SUMNER COUNTY
 
AT 241 PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SPRINGFIELD MOVING
EAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HAIL THE SIZE OF DIMES
AND WIND GUSTS NEAR 65 MPH. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TOWARDS THE CITIES OF
CROSS PLAINS...WHITE HOUSE...BETHPAGE AND WESTMORELAND.
 
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
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE lROAD.

NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 13, 2:42 PM CDT, 0 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
230 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 1997

CONVECTION FIRING ALONG BOUNDARY IN WRN MID TN AND IS HOLDING TOGETHER
AS IT MOVES EAST.  MAIN BOUNDARY IS ALONG OHIO RIVER EXTENDING OUT FROM
A LOW IN SOUTH CENTRAL MO.  ETA HAS PLACEMENT OF LOW MUCH CLOSER AT 18Z
THAN NGM (WHICH IS TOO FAR N) SO WILL GO WITH IT.  THIS CONVECTION
SHOULD EXIT CWA BY 00Z AND NEXT BATCH OF PRECIP SHOULD COME TONIGHT AFT
9Z.  THIS MDL RUN SHOWING THE LOW MOVING EAST ALONG THE BNDRY INSTEAD
OF THE BNDRY MOVING S THROUGH TN.  SO MDLS KEEPING HVY PRECIP NORTH.
WITH LOW BEING CLOSER THAN ORIGINALLY THOUGHT AM MORE CONCERNED WITH TS
TONIGHT THAN WAS BEFORE.  WITH PWS ARND 1.5 COULD SEE SOME HVY RAIN BUT
DON'T THINK WE'LL SEE THE TRAINING PREVIOUSLY ANTICIPATED.

THINGS SHOULD CLEAR UP BY SAT AFTN AND SUN SHOULD BE A PRETTY GOOD DAY.
FWC AND FAN TEMPS PRETTY SIMILAR SO WILL GO WITH THAT.  AS FOR POPS FWC
LOOKS OK.

BNA 6j8/80/63/86 85-0

SW/12

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.