Severe Thunderstorm Warning 271, NWS Nashville, TN

Issued

Jul 14, 1997, 9:12 PM CDT (02:12 UTC)

Expired

Jul 14, 1997, 10:15 PM CDT

In force

63 min

Issued by

NWS Nashville, TN

Area

Whole counties

County Benton County, TN

The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:16 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 150212 RRA
SVRBNA
TNC043-083-085-005-150315-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
912 PM CDT MON JUL 14 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...DICKSON COUNTY...HOUSTON COUNTY...HUMPHREYS COUNTY
 
IN WEST TENNESSEE
 
   ...BENTON COUNTY
 
AT 911 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
EXTENDING NORTHEAST FROM DOVER...TO NEAR CLARKSVILLE. THIS LINE OF
STORMS WAS MOVING SOUTH AT AROUND 35 MPH...AND WILL MOVE THROUGH THE
ERIN AND CUMBERLAND FURNACE AREAS BY 930 PM...TO ALONG A LINE FROM
CAMDEN...WAVERLY AND CHARLOTTE AREAS BY 945 PM AND FURTHER SOUTH TO
HOLLIDAY...HURRICANE MILLS AND DICKSON BY 10 PM. YOU SHOULD TAKE COVER
IMMEDIATELY.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE 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

NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 14, 7:12 PM CDT, 2 hours 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.