Tornado Warning 23, NWS Nashville, TN

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

Counties Macon County, TN, Sumner County, TN

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 41 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 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 242334
TORBNA
TNC041-111-165-250015-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
532 PM CST FRI JAN 24 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...DE KALB COUNTY...MACON COUNTY...SUMNER COUNTY
 
AT 530 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR AUBURNTOWN MOVING
EAST AT 35 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL MOVE TO SMITHVILLE...DOWELLTOWN BY 550
PM. ANOTHER TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTH
OF GALLATIN. THIS TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH...AND WILL REACH
BETHPAGE AND WESTMORELAND BY 545 PM AND LAFAYETTE BY 6 PM.
 
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.
 
TT

NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Jan 24, 1:55 PM CST, 3 hours 37 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
155 PM CST FRI JAN 24 1997

IN SHORT TERM...SCT CONVECTN BEGINNING TO FIRE ALONG PRE-FRONTAL TROF
EXTDG FM MKL-CBM-MEI. 19Z ADAP REVEALS AMS OVR MID TN DESTABILIZING IN
A HURRY. VIS SATLT IMAGERY SHOWS SCT/BKN CLDS PRECEDING CONVECTN WHILE
OKO PROFILER SHOWS WLY MID/UPR LVL WNDS ADVECTG COLDER AIR ALOFT. THUS
AMS SHOULD CONT TO DESTABLIZ FURTHER. THRFR FEEL THAT SCT/NMRS
SHWRS/TSTMS XPTD OVR MID TN LATE THIS AFTN AND EARLY TNGT. A FEW TSTMS
WL LIKELY BE ACCOMPANIED BY LARGE HAIL/WND GSTS 60+ KTS.

MDLS PROGGD CDFNT TO CROSS MID TN THIS EVE...EXITG PLATEAU BY 06Z.
BEHIND SFC FNT...XPCT NO MORE THAN DZ-UNTIL PRE-DAWN HRS. LIKE IDEA OF
SKIES CLRG OUT LATE TNGT BTWN 09-12Z. FOR SAT...DESPITE PDS OF
SUNSHINE...TEMPS WL HAVE A HARD TIME RECOVERING FM EARLY MORNING LOWS.
ATTM FAVOR AVN MOS NUMBERS FOR TNGT/SAT.

AS HIGH BUILDS INTO RGN SAT NIGHT...WNDS WL SUBSIDE ALLOWG FOR GOOD
RADIATIONAL CONDITIONS. MOS TEMPS LOOK TO BE IN THE BALLPARK. S/W IN NW
FLOW ALOFT WL DIVE ACRS CNTRL PLAINS INTO MID MS VLY SUN. THIS WEA
FEATURE WL SPRD HIGH LVL CLDS OVR MID-SOUTH. BLV NGM FOUS DATA HAS GOOD
HANDL ON MSTR INCR. HIGH LVL CLDS WL LIKELY SUBDUE TEMP RISE ON
SUN...PREFER TEMPS OFFERED BY NGM MOS.

BHM ISSUING WARNGS ATTM FOR NW AL. STORM S OF LEXINGTON TN LOOKING
HEALTHIER WITH EACH SCAN.
09

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