Severe Thunderstorm Warning 340, NWS Nashville, TN

Issued

Nov 1, 1997, 12:06 PM CST (18:06 UTC)

Expired

Nov 1, 1997, 1:00 PM CST

In force

54 min

Issued by

NWS Nashville, TN

Area

Whole counties

Counties Giles County, TN, Lawrence 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 011807 RRA
SVRBNA
TNC055-099-011900-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1206 PM CST SAT NOV 1 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  100 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...GILES COUNTY...LAWRENCE COUNTY
 
AT 1205 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 5
MILES SOUTHEAST OF LAWRENCEBURG NEAR CENTER POINT. THE STORM WAS MOVING
EAST AT AROUND 30 MPH...AND WILL REACH ASPEN HILL BY 1230 PM AND BRYSON
BY 1240 PM. YOU SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH
THIS STORM.
 
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.
 
TT

NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Nov 1, 8:46 AM CST, 3 hours 20 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
845 AM CST SAT NOV 1 1997

DECENT LN OF SHRA/TSRA CONTS TO MOVE EWD INTO THE FA THIS AM AS
PER LATEST 1440Z 88-D RETURNS. CURRENT FCST HAS A GOOD HANDLE ON
POPS FOR FA...ALTHO MAIN FCST PROBLEM TDA WL BE TEMPS.

CDFNT MOVG THRU WRN PTN OF TN ATTM AND IS ALNG A LN EXTENDING SWD
FM NR EVV-PAH TO NR MEM. CDFNT IS PROGGED TO CONT ITS EWD PROGRESSION
AND WL MOVE ON THRU BNA AREA BY SHORTLY AFT 18Z AND THRU THE ERN PTNS
OF THE FA BY 22-23Z. THE SHRA/TSRA IS MAINLY ALNG AND AHD OF THE
FNT AND STILL LIKE CURRENT HI POPS FOR THE FA.

AS FAR AS TEMPS ARE CONCERNED...W/EXTENSIVE CLD COVER AND PCPN OCCURG
ACRS THE FA FOR THE MAJORITY OF THE DAY...MAY NEED TO TAKE A LOOK AT
LOWERING HI TEMPS A TAD FOR THE FA. W/THE CDFNT MOVG THRU MOST OF THE
FA BEFORE OR SHORTLY AFT 18Z...CAA BHND THE FNT SHUD BE A FACTOR IN
HINDERING MUCH...IF ANY RISE IN AFTN TEMPS.

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.