Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS Nashville, TN

Issued

Mar 1, 1997, 6:55 AM CST (12:55 UTC)

Expired

Mar 1, 1997, 8:00 AM CST

In force

65 min

Issued by

NWS Nashville, TN

Area

Whole counties

County Perry 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.

000 
TTAA00 KBNA 011258 RRA
SVRBNA
TNC135-011400-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
655 AM CST SAT MAR 1 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  800 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...PERRY COUNTY
 
AT 655 AM CST A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED NEAR THE TENNESSEE
RIVER JUST EAST OF BATH SPRINGS TENNESSEE. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR AND BE NEAR LINDEN BY 720 AM CST.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELE,CTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
 
 
 
BOYD

NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 1, 1:55 AM CST, 5 hours 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

In the hours before

TNZ005>011-022>033-055>065-075>082-093>098-011300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
602 AM CST SAT MAR 1 1997

THE TORNADO WATCH FOR THE WEST HALF OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE HAS EXPIRED.
THE IMMEDIATE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS DIMINISHED ACROSS THE
AREA.

TROUTMAN

TNZ005>011-022>033-055>065-075>082-093>098-011300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
602 AM CST SAT MAR 1 1997

THE TORNADO WATCH FOR THE WEST HALF OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE HAS EX<PIRED.
THE IMMEDIATE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS DIMINISHED ACROSS THE
AREA.

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.