Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS Nashville, TN

Issued

Mar 1, 1997, 3:47 AM CST (09:47 UTC)

Expired

Mar 1, 1997, 4:15 AM CST

In force

28 min

Issued by

NWS Nashville, TN

Area

Whole counties

County Sumner County, TN

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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.

000 
TTAA00 KBNA 010948 RRA
SVRBNA
TNC165-011015-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
347 AM CST SAT MAR 1 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  415 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...SUMNER COUNTY
 
AT 347 AM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
JUST WEST OF GALLATIN MOVING NORTHEAST NEAR 40 MILES AN HOUR. THIS
STORM WILL MOVE THROUGH GALLATIN.
 
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.

NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 1, 1:55 AM CST, 1 hour 52 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
155 AM CST SAT MAR 1 1997

NOT ALOT OF TIME TO LOOK AT MODEL DATA AS TORNADO WARNINGS ARE OUT
OVER EXTREME SOUTHWEST MID TN.  ONE HOUSE DESTROYED IN EXTREME
NORTHWEST LAWRENCE COUNTY.

700 MB SPEED MAX PUNCHING ALONG MISSISSIPPI RIVER JUST SOUTH OF
MEM AND EXPECT THIS IS RESPONSIBLE FOR SETTING OFF SEVERE WX IN
MID STATE.

THINK WE SHOULD GO WITH A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR MID STATE FOR
SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT AS MODELS DUMP ALOT OF PRECIP ON
MID STATE NEXT 48 HRS.

BNA RECORD HIGH FOR TODAY IS 78.

BOYD
01

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.