Severe Thunderstorm Warning 267, NWS Nashville, TN

Issued

Jul 14, 1997, 7:54 PM CDT (00:54 UTC)

Expired

Jul 14, 1997, 8:30 PM CDT

In force

36 min

Issued by

NWS Nashville, TN

Area

Whole counties

Counties Grundy County, TN, Marion 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 150055 RRA
SVRBNA
TNC061-115-150130-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
754 PM CDT MON JUL 14 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  830 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE
 
   ...SOUTHERN GRUNDY COUNTY...WESTERN MARION COUNTY
 
AT 754 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR
MONTEAGLE. MOVEMENT WAS NEARLY STATIONARY AND WILL AFFECT PEOPLE IN THE
MONTEAGLE AREA THROUGH 830 PM. YOU SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
 
CBD/TT

NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 14, 7:12 PM CDT, 42 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
712 PM CDT MON JUL 14 1997

MAIN FCST PROBLEM TNGT WL BE SEWD SAGGING SVR TSTM LINE MOVG THRU SRN
IN-ILL AND INTO WRN KY AS OF 00Z.

AM CONCERNED ATTM THAT POPS FOR AT LEAST NRN PTNS OF FA ARE TOO LOW
FOR TNGT AND RECOMMEND WE UP POPS TO ARND 50 PCT DUE TO EXPECTED SEWD
MOVEMENT OF TSTM LINE AND THE FACT THAT WE ARE IN A VERY UNSTABLE
ATMOSPHERE HERE ACRS MID TN. LIS AS PER ADAP CONT TO BE -10 TO -12
AT H5 AND -14 TO -16 AT H3 AS PER 23Z ADAP. W/LOSS OF HEATING BY 01Z
ACRS RGN...TSRA SHUD SLOWLY BEGIN TO WEAKEN SOMEWHAT...BUT BLV THAT
WE SHUD AT LEAST SEE LN MAKING IT TO CLARKSVILLE-STEWART COUNTIES
BETWEEN 03-05Z TNGT. MAY WANT TO MNTN STG-SVR POSSIBLE DUE TO THE
NRN COUNTIES BEING RIGHT NEXT TO THE SVR TSTM WATCH.

UNMODIFIED NEW 00Z SOUNDING DATA FM HERE AT OHX INDCTS THAT CAPES ARE
AT 3979 AND W/DEWPOINTS POOLING ALNG LN...EXPECT TSRA TO CONT SEWD TWD
FA TNGT. FOR NOW...CURRENT FCST IS GNRLY IN DECENT SHAPE FOR REST OF FA
S OF BNA TNGT AND WL PLAY A WAIT AND SEE ABOUT TSRA UP IN KY BEFORE
RECOMMENDING AN UPDATE FOR REST OF ZONES TNGT.

TROUTMAN

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.