Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 303, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 1997, 4:55 PM CDT for Stewart County, Tennessee. It was in force for 50 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 19, 1997, 4:55 PM CDT (21:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 1997, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stewart County, TN
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 122 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -126 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1001 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
452 WUUS1 KBNA 192156 RRA SVRBNA TNC161-192245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 455 PM CDT TUE AUG 19 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE ...STEWART COUNTY AT 455...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO THE WESTERN PART OF THE COUNTY 10 MILES NORTH OF DOVER. THIS STORM CONTAINS DAMAGING WIND. THE STORM WAS MOVING NEARLY DUE EAST NEAR 20 MILES AN HOUR. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DONT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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 Aug 19, 3:48 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 3:48 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 345 PM CDT TUE AUG 19 1997 SURROUNDING OFFICES NOTE... VWP/RADIAL VELOCITIES SHOWING GOOD MID LEVEL JET NOSING THROUGH WESTERN KY AT THIS TdIME. SEVERE WEATHER BREAKING OUT ON THE NOSE OF THIS MID LEVEL JET ALONG TENNESSEE...KENTUCKY BORDER WITH WALL CLOUDS BEING REPORTED. BOYD 01
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 2:21 PM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
TNZ022-025-024-006-007-005-008-059-028-200130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 221 PM CDT TUE AUG 19 1997 ...STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE IN NORTHWEST MIDDLE TENNESSEE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING... THE AIR MASS ACROSS NORTHWEST MIDDLE TENNESSEE WAS DESTABILIZING RAPIDLY THIS AFTERNOON AND AS A RESULT THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP QUICKLY AND COULD BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE AROUND DOVER...CLARKSVILLE...SPRINGFIELD AND IN THE WAVERLY... DICKSON AND NASHVILLE FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. RESIDENTS NEED TO STAY ABREAST OF THE WEATHER ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE NORTHWEST PART OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. BOYD
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 2:22 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before
TNZ022-025-024-006-007-005-008-059-028-200130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 221 PM CDT TUE AUG 19 1997 ...STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE IN NORTHWEST MIDDLE TENNESSEE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING... THE AIR MASS ACROSS NORTHWEST MIDDLE TENNESSEE WAS DESTABILIZING RAPIDLY THIS AFTERNOON AND AS A RESULT THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP QUICKLY AND COULD BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE AROUND DOVER...CLARKSVILLE...SPRINGFIELD AND IN THE WAVERLY... DICKSON AND NASHVILLE FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. RESIDENTS NEED TO STAY ABREAST OF THE WEATHER ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE NORTHWEST PART OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. BO(YD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 3:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Robertson, Sumner | 48 min |
| Aug 19, 3:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Montgomery | 53 min |
| Aug 19, 3:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Robertson, Sumner | 35 min |
| Aug 19, 4:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Robertson | 48 min |
| Aug 19, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Sumner | 47 min |
| Aug 19, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Trousdale, Wilson | 34 min |
| Aug 19, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Smith | 49 min |
| Aug 19, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Putnam | 44 min |
| Aug 19, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Decatur | 38 min |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.