Severe Thunderstorm Warning 251, NWS Nashville, TN

Issued

Jul 4, 1997, 5:22 AM CDT (10:22 UTC)

Expired

Jul 4, 1997, 6:15 AM CDT

In force

53 min

Issued by

NWS Nashville, TN

Area

Whole counties

County Wilson County, TN

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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TTAA00 KBNA 041022 RRA
SVRBNA
TNC189-041115-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
522 AM CDT FRI JUL 4 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...NORTHERN WILSON COUNTY
 
AT 520 AM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHWEST
OF LEBANON MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM PRODUCE DIME SIZE
HAIL IN GREENBRIER AT 450 AM AND CAUSED WIND DAMAGE IN THE CLARKSVILLE
VICINITY AROUND 4 AM. THE STORM WILL MOVE JUST NORTH OF LEBANON AND JUST
SOUTH OF TROUSDALE COUNTY LINE. AT 520 AM CDT A STORM SPOTTER REPORTED
DIME SIZE HAIL JUST SOUTH OF GALLATIN.
 
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 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, 3 hours 2 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.
09

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.