Severe Thunderstorm Warning 343, NWS Nashville, TN

Issued

Nov 1, 1997, 1:02 PM CST (19:02 UTC)

Expired

Nov 1, 1997, 1:45 PM CST

In force

43 min

Issued by

NWS Nashville, TN

Area

Whole counties

County Franklin 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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TTAA00 KBNA 011903 RRA
SVRBNA
TNC051-011945-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
102 PM CST SAT NOV 1 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  145 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...FRANKLIN COUNTY
 
AT 1 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
EXTENDING SOUTH FROM LYNCHBURG TO NEAR LOIS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST
AT AROUND 40 MPH...AND WILL REACH ESTILL SPRINGS AND WINCHESTER BY 120
PM AND THE ALTO AND SEWANEE AREAS BY 140 PM. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY
PRODUCE LARGE HAIL IN EXCESS OF THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH. 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 FRBOM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
 
TT

NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Nov 1, 8:46 AM CST, 4 hours 16 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.