Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 18, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Jan 24, 1997, 5:10 PM CST for Smith County, Tennessee. It was in force for 50 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, 5:10 PM CST (23:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 24, 1997, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Smith County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:13 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, 5:28 PM CST | Tornado F2 | Brush Creek, TN | |
| Jan 24, 5:30 PM CST | Hail 0.88 | Gordonsville, 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 59 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.
919 WFUS1 KBNA 242311 RRA TORBNA TNC159-250000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 510 PM CST FRI JAN 24 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE ...SMITH COUNTY AT 510 PM...A TORNADO NEAR WATERTOWN MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR WILL MOVE TOWARDS GORDONSVILLE BY 540 PM. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING EXTENSIVE DAMAGE. TAKE COVER NOW. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. &
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, 4:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Wilson | 65 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, 5:11 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.