Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 39, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Mar 1, 1997, 4:09 AM CST for Macon County, Sumner County, Tennessee. It was in force for 36 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
- Mar 1, 1997, 4:09 AM CST (10:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 1, 1997, 4:45 AM CST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Macon County, TN, Sumner County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:09 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 4:20 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Westmoreland, TN | |
| Mar 1, 4:45 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Northern Sections, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 1:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 53 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
- 535 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 644 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 296 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 328 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBNA 011011 RRA TORBNA TNC111-165-011045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 409 AM CST SAT MAR 1 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE ...MACON COUNTY...NORTHEASTERN SUMNER COUNTY AT 410 AM CST A TORNADO WAS INDICATED IN NORTHEAST SUMNER COUNTY NEAR WESTMORELAND AND WILL BE MOVING NORTHEAST INTO WESTERN MACON COUNTY NORTH OF EULIA. THE TORNADO IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. 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 BArSEMENT 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. BOYD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 7:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson | 38 min |
| Mar 1, 12:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wayne | 54 min |
| Mar 1, 1:04 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Wayne | 26 min |
| Mar 1, 1:13 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Lewis | 47 min |
| Mar 1, 1:41 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Maury | 49 min |
| Mar 1, 2:13 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Williamson | 47 min |
| Mar 1, 2:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Stewart | 41 min |
| Mar 1, 2:53 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Williamson | 52 min |
| Mar 1, 2:55 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson | 65 min |
| Mar 1, 2:58 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Wayne | 62 min |
| Mar 1, 3:34 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Lawrence | 56 min |
| Mar 1, 3:47 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Sumner | 28 min |
| Mar 1, 3:55 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Benton, Decatur | 35 min |
| Mar 1, 3:59 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Humphreys | 61 min |
| Mar 1, 4:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson | 61 min |
| Mar 1, 4:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Decatur | 42 min |
| Mar 1, 4:37 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Benton | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 5:11 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Dickson, Humphreys | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 5:11 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Decatur | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 5:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Robertson | 26 min |
| Mar 1, 6:12 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Robertson, Sumner | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 6:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Perry | 65 min |
| Mar 1, 7:10 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Perry | 50 min |
| Mar 1, 7:17 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Decatur | 43 min |
| Mar 1, 7:21 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Hickman | 54 min |
| Mar 1, 8:05 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Williamson | 40 min |
| Mar 1, 10:24 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Stewart | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 1:11 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Stewart | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 1:26 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Montgomery | 3 hr |
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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.