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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Nashville, TN

January 24, 1997Rutherford County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Jan 24, 1997, 5:32 PM CST for Rutherford County, Tennessee. It was in force for 43 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 24, 1997, 5:32 PM CST (23:32 UTC)
Expired
Jan 24, 1997, 6:15 PM CST
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Rutherford County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jan 24, 3:30 PM CSTTornado WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 36 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1997-01-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1997-01-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 508 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 24, 9:15 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningOHXBledsoe, Marion, Sequatchie3 hr
Jan 24, 2:12 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDecatur48 min
Jan 24, 2:20 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXPerry40 min
Jan 24, 2:46 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBenton, Houston, Humphreys, Stewart44 min
Jan 24, 2:46 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMacon44 min
Jan 24, 2:46 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXHickman44 min
Jan 24, 3:01 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXHickman29 min
Jan 24, 3:05 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMontgomery55 min
Jan 24, 3:10 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXPerry35 min
Jan 24, 3:17 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXLewis, Maury58 min
Jan 24, 3:30 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXHickman30 min
Jan 24, 3:33 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXMaury, Williamson57 min
Jan 24, 3:44 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXMaury46 min
Jan 24, 3:55 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXRobertson35 min
Jan 24, 3:59 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXGiles, Lawrence46 min
Jan 24, 4:14 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXDavidson46 min
Jan 24, 4:22 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXRutherford, Williamson53 min
Jan 24, 4:40 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXWilson65 min
Jan 24, 4:59 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXLincoln61 min
Jan 24, 5:05 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXCannon55 min
Jan 24, 5:10 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXSmith50 min
Jan 24, 5:11 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXRutherford34 min
Jan 24, 5:14 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXSumner46 min
Jan 24, 5:14 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXSumner31 min
Jan 24, 5:26 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXFranklin, Moore49 min
Jan 24, 5:32 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXDeKalb43 min
Jan 24, 5:32 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXMacon, Sumner43 min
Jan 24, 5:36 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXJackson39 min
Jan 24, 5:36 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXJackson, Putnam54 min
Jan 24, 5:49 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXFranklin41 min

Nearby

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.