Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 14, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Jan 24, 1997, 4:40 PM CST for Wilson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 65 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 24, 1997, 4:40 PM CST (22:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 24, 1997, 5:45 PM CST
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wilson County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:43 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 4:53 PM CST | Tornado F2 | Vine, TN | |
| Jan 24, 5:00 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Bairds Mills, 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 3:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 27 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 480 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 508 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 610 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBNA 242242 RRA TORBNA TNC189-242345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 440 PM CST FRI JAN 24 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE ...WILSON COUNTY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO ON THE DAVIDSON-RUTHERFORD COUNTY LINE NEAR PERCY PRIEST LAKE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THIS TORNADO WILL MOVE THROUGH THE COMMUNITIES OF GLADEVILLE...LEBANON ...AND WATERTOWN. A SKYWARN SPOTTER REPORTED GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL WITH THIS STORM IN LAVERGNE. YOU SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDvING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT. & CBD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 9:15 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Bledsoe, Marion, Sequatchie | 3 hr |
| Jan 24, 2:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Decatur | 48 min |
| Jan 24, 2:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Perry | 40 min |
| Jan 24, 2:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton, Houston, Humphreys, Stewart | 44 min |
| Jan 24, 2:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Macon | 44 min |
| Jan 24, 2:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman | 44 min |
| Jan 24, 3:01 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Hickman | 29 min |
| Jan 24, 3:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Montgomery | 55 min |
| Jan 24, 3:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Perry | 35 min |
| Jan 24, 3:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lewis, Maury | 58 min |
| Jan 24, 3:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Hickman | 30 min |
| Jan 24, 3:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Maury, Williamson | 57 min |
| Jan 24, 3:44 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Maury | 46 min |
| Jan 24, 3:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Robertson | 35 min |
| Jan 24, 3:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence | 46 min |
| Jan 24, 4:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson | 46 min |
| Jan 24, 4:22 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Rutherford, Williamson | 53 min |
| Jan 24, 4:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lincoln | 61 min |
| Jan 24, 5:05 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cannon | 55 min |
| Jan 24, 5:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Smith | 50 min |
| Jan 24, 5:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Rutherford | 34 min |
| Jan 24, 5:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Sumner | 46 min |
| Jan 24, 5:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Sumner | 31 min |
| Jan 24, 5:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Franklin, Moore | 49 min |
| Jan 24, 5:32 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Rutherford | 43 min |
| Jan 24, 5:32 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | DeKalb | 43 min |
| Jan 24, 5:32 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Macon, Sumner | 43 min |
| Jan 24, 5:36 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Jackson | 39 min |
| Jan 24, 5:36 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Jackson, Putnam | 54 min |
| Jan 24, 5:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Franklin | 41 min |
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Sources
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.