Severe Thunderstorm Warning 249, NWS Nashville, TN

Issued

Jul 4, 1997, 4:30 AM CDT (09:30 UTC)

Expired

Jul 4, 1997, 5:15 AM CDT

In force

45 min

Issued by

NWS Nashville, TN

Area

Whole counties

Counties Cheatham County, TN, Robertson County, TN

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 040931 RRA
SVRBNA
TNC021-147-041015-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
430 AM CDT FRI JUL 4 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  515 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...NORTHERN CHEATHAM COUNTY...ROBERTSON COUNTY
 
AT 427 AM CDT A SVERE THUNDRSTORMS WAS LOCATED ABOUT 5 MILES EAST OF
CLARKSVILLE OR ABOUT 15 MILES WEST OF SPRINGFIELD MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
A STORM SPOTTER IN CLARKSIVLLE REPORTED POWER LINES DOWN AT 425 AM.
WIND GUSTS NEAR 60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.
THE STORM WILL MOVE THROUGH THE CITIES OF CEDAR HILL...PLEASANT VIEW
...SPRINGFIELD AND CROSS PLAINS.
 
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 LOW>EST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T 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 Jul 4, 2:20 AM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
220 AM CDT FRI JUL 4 1997

A FEW FOLKS MAY HAVE TO MOVE THEIR 4TH OF JULY OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES
INDOORS FOR A WHILE AS MOTHER NATURES SUPPLIES HER OWN BRAND OF
FIREWORKS.

AMS OVR MOST OF MIDSTATE MOIST/SLGTLY UNSTBL BUT REALLY JUICY AMS ISNT
THAT FAR AWAY. 06Z ADAP DEPICTS BEST MSTR/INSTABLILTY SETTING UP OVR
WRN TN. THRFR ACTIVITY ACRS SRN IL SHOULD GRDLLY DIMINISH AS IT MOVS
FURTHER ESE BUT XPCT CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY TO INCR OVR NE AR/NW TN AT
ANYTIME. MOST CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY OCCURG JUST BEHIND FRNTL BNDRY THUS
APPRS BEST CHC OF TSTMS FOR NRN MID TN WL BE LATE AM THRU AFTN HRS WHILE
ACTIVITY WL LIKELY OFF HOLD UNTIL LATER TODAY/THIS EVENING FOR SRN MID
TN. MOS POPS LOOK REASONABLE CONSIDERG CURRENT SCENARIO. XPCT WARMEST
TEMPS OVR SRN MID TN AS CLD DEBRIS/SCT TSTMS WL HALT TEMP RISE OVR NRN
SXNS BY MID-DAY.

LOOKS AS IF MID-SOUTH WL RECEIVE BRIEF RESPITE FM CURRRENT STRETCH OF
HIGH HUMIDITY BY SAT. PROGGS SUGGEST DEWPTS IN THE 50S AND PLENTY OF
SUN ON SAT. SEE LTL REASON TO DEVIATE FM MOS TEMPS FOR SAT AS HIGHS
ACRS MUCH OF ERN NE/IA/NRN IL WERE IN THE 70-75 DEG RANGE.
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BNA 85/61/82 610               SHELBYVILLE 89/64/84 640

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.