Severe Thunderstorm Warning 244, NWS Nashville, TN

Issued

Jun 30, 1997, 2:10 PM CDT (19:10 UTC)

Expired

Jun 30, 1997, 3:00 PM CDT

In force

50 min

Issued by

NWS Nashville, TN

Area

Whole counties

Counties Houston County, TN, Stewart 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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WUUS1 KBNA 301909 RRA
SVRBNA
TNC083-161-302000-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
210 PM CDT MON JUN 30 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  300 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...HOUSTON COUNTY...STEWART COUNTY
 
AT 207 PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF DOVER WHILE ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES WEST OF
ERIN THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. A STORM SPOTTER IN
BENTON COUNTY BETWEEN CAMDEN AND BIG SANDY REPORTED WIND GUSTS NEAR 55
MPH WHEN THE STORM PASSED HER LOCATION AT 158 PM CDT.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF ONE OF THESE STORMS...TAKE COVER NOW.
 
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.
 
 
 
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NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 30, 9:10 AM CDT, 5 hours earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
910 AM CDT MON JUN 30 1997

DEEP MSTR IN PLACE OVR THE MID-SOUTH THIS AM. MEANWHILE SATLT AND 88D
LOOP DEPICTS OUTFLOW FROM LAST NIGHTS TSTMS OVR MO/AR MOVING TWDS MID
TN. MODIFYING 12Z BNA SNDG PROJECTS CAPE ARD 1400 J/KG AND A LIFTED OF
-5. WITH MDTLY UNSTBL AMS...PRECIP WTER VALUES NR 2 INCHES AND LOW LVL
FOCUS MECHANISM...TSTM COVERAGE SHOULD BE EXTENSIVE THIS AFTN. ONCE
AGAIN WL HAVE TO MONITOR FOR SLOW MOVG/TRAINING CELLS DUE TO PREVIOUS
HVY RAIN.

DUE TO EXTENSIVE CLDINESS AND ANTICIPATION OF NRMS SHWRS/TSTMS THIS
AFTN...BLV HIGH TEMPS THIS AFTN ACRS MID-STATE CAN BE LOWERED ONE CAT.
09

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.