Severe Thunderstorm Warning 281, NWS Nashville, TN

Issued

Jul 14, 1997, 10:55 PM CDT (03:55 UTC)

Expired

Jul 15, 1997, 12:00 AM CDT

In force

65 min

Issued by

NWS Nashville, TN

Area

Whole counties

Counties Lewis County, TN, Wayne County, TN

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:57 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 150354 RRA
SVRBNA
TNC055-099-101-119-181-150500-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1055 PM CDT MON JUL 14 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...GILES COUNTY...LAWRENCE COUNTY...LEWIS COUNTY...MAURY COUNTY
   ...WAYNE COUNTY
 
AT 1050 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
EXTENDING NORTHEAST FROM ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTH OF DECATURVILLE...TO NEAR
HOHENWALD TO ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF COLUMBIA NEAR SANTE FE. THESE
STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTH AT AROUND 30 MPH...AND WILL MOVE TO ALONG A
LINE EXTENDING EAST FROM NEAR WAYNESBORO...TO LAWRENCEBURG...TO NEAR
LYNNVILLE BY 1125 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, 3 hours 43 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.