Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Nashville, TN

Issued

Mar 5, 1997, 3:53 AM CST (09:53 UTC)

Expired

Mar 5, 1997, 5:00 AM CST

In force

67 min

Issued by

NWS Nashville, TN

Area

Whole counties

Counties Benton County, TN, Decatur 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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TNC005-039-051100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
353 AM CST WED MAR 5 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN WEST TENNESSEE
 
   ...BENTON COUNTY...DECATUR COUNTY
 
AT 3:51 DOPPLER RADAR AT NASHVILLE INDICATED A CLUSTER OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO BENTON AND DECATUR COUNTIES FROM THE WEST.
THESE STORMS WILL AFFECT THE TOWNS OF BIG SANDY...CAMDEN...AND HOLLADAY
WITHIN THE NEXT FEW MINUTES.
 
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 5, 2:57 AM CST, 56 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION                   ...UPDATE...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
245 AM CST WED MAR 5 1997

HAVING HAD TIME TO ASSESS RAINFALL POTENTIAL BELIEVE WE NEED TO
ISSUE FLASH FLOOD WATBCH FOR MID STATE FOR TODAY.

RAINFALL AMOUNTS COULD REACH ONE INCH ACROSS PARTS OF MID STATE
BETWEEN DAYBREAK AND THIS EVENING.

BOYD
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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.