Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Nashville, TN

Issued

Mar 5, 1997, 5:39 AM CST (11:39 UTC)

Expired

Mar 5, 1997, 6:45 AM CST

In force

66 min

Issued by

NWS Nashville, TN

Area

Whole counties

Counties Davidson County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Wilson County, TN

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 5 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:42 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.

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TTAA00 KBNA 051141 RRA
SVRBNA
TNC037-165-189-051245-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
539 AM CST WED MAR 5 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...DAVIDSON COUNTY...SUMNER COUNTY...WILSON COUNTY
 
AT 5:38 AM DOPPLER RADAR AT NASHVILLE INDICATED A CLUSTER OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH THE NASHVILLE METROPOLITAN AREA...ALSO THE
GALLATIN AREA. YOU CAN EXPECT VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...LARGE HAIL...AND
DANGEROUS WINDS WITH THESE STORMS.
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.\

NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 5, 2:57 AM CST, 2 hours 42 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.