Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Nashville, TN

Issued

Mar 1, 1997, 10:38 PM CST (04:38 UTC)

Expired

Mar 1, 1997, 11:45 PM CST

In force

67 min

Issued by

NWS Nashville, TN

Area

Whole counties

Counties Davidson County, TN, Sumner County, TN

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 020440 RRA
SVRBNA
TNC037-165-020545-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1038 PM CST SAT MAR 1 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...DAVIDSON COUNTY...SUMNER COUNTY
 
AT 1035 PM CST A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER
WEATHER RADAR MOVING INTO SUMNER AND DAVIDSON COUNTIES FROM THE WEST.
 
EXPECT DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL TO ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS
AS THEY PASS THROUGH THE NASHVILLE METRO AREA...GALLATIN...PORTLAND
WHITE HOUSE.
 
THE LINE IS MOVING EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
 
 
BOYD

NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 1, 7:45 PM CST, 2 hours 53 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
745 PM CST SAT MAR 1 1997

STUFF OCCURRG JUST AHEAD OF CDFNT IN AREA OF GUD INSTBLTY.  XPCT
STUFF TO MOV OVR HERE TO LATR TNGT W/CDNFT. XPCT CDFNT BNA VCNTY
ARND 12Z.  TEMPS LUKG GUD.  LUKS LK ADJUSTMTS NEEDD FOR WATCH ONLY
ATTM.

In the hours before

TNZ-005-006-012315-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
440 PM CST SAT MAR 1 1997

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS FOR STEWART AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES
HAVE EXPIRED...
THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE WIDESPREAD
FLOODING THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON HAVE MOVED NORTH INTO KENTUCKY.
A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE
THROUGH SUNDAY.

TROUTMAN

TNZ-005-006-012315-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
440 PM CST SAT MAR 1 1997

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS FOR STEWART AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES
HAVE EXPIRED...
THE SHOWERS ANDL THUNDERSTORMS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE WIDESPREAD
FLOODING THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON HAVE MOVED NORTH INTO KENTUCKY.
A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE
THROUGH SUNDAY.

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.