Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 265, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1997, 5:59 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Moore County, Tennessee. It was in force for 46 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 1997, 5:59 PM CDT (22:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 1997, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lincoln County, TN, Moore County, TN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 6:10 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Mulberry, TN | Local law enforcement reported a barn was damaged by strong thunderstorm winds. |
| Jul 8, 6:15 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Lynchburg, TN | Local law enforcement reported 3 trees were blown down. One of those trees fell on top of the "Off The Beaten Path" building in downtown Lewisburg. |
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.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 103 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1494 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 570 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBNA 082259 RRA SVRBNA TNC103-127-082345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 559 PM CDT TUE JUL 8 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE ...NORTHEASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY...MOORE COUNTY AT 557 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF FAYETTEVILLE NEAR MULBERRY. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT AROUND 15 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL MOVE INTO THE LOIS AND MARBLE HILL AREAS BY 630 PM. YOU SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...P0EOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. TT
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 8, 2:37 PM CDT, 3 hours 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 2:37 PM CDT, 3 hours 22 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 2 PM CDT TUE JUL 8 1997 CUR OHX 88-D SHOWING AREA TSRA ALONG THE TN RIVER WITH ANOTHER AREA OVR PLATEAU. SCT SHRA ACRS S MID TN. TEMPS RANGE FROM LWR 80S PLATEAU TO UPR 80S WEST. SFC DWPTS REMAIN IN THE LWR 70S WITH A LGT SOUTH WIND. MCS INDUCED VORT CENTR NOW OVR CNTRL MO HAS DEEPEND S/W MVG INTO RGN. NGM SEEMS TO HV A HNDL ON MVMT AND INTENSITY OF S/W SO WILL RUN WITH LWR H50 AND H70 HGHTS ALNG WITH INCRS TSRA ACTVTY THRU WED MORN. AFTR 18Z WED..UPR S/W MVS EAST AND S/W RDG BLDS INTO FA. AT THE SFC..NGM KEEPS SW WIND THRU 12Z WED THEN SHFTS NW BY 18Z. DWPTS REMAIN IN THE 70S WITH 30% POPS THRU 00Z THU. THIS SEEMS REASONABLE BUT WOULD INCRS POPS TOWARD 12Z WED AS SFC BNDRY AND S/W APPRCH FA. LIKE MOS OVRNGHT TEMPS IN THE 70S W OF PLATEAU AND MID 60S ALNG PLATEAU WITH INCRSG CLDS AND SW WIND. MOS HIGHS ON WED WITH 88 W OF PLATEAU MAY BE A LTL WRM WITH BKN-OVC SKIES.
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997
Sources
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.