Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 41, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Mar 1, 1997, 7:17 AM CST for Decatur 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
- Mar 1, 1997, 7:17 AM CST (13:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 1, 1997, 8:00 AM CST
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Decatur County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 1238 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 505 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 334 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 406 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.0
- Supercell composite
- 13.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBNA 011318 RRA TORBNA TNC039-011400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 717 AM CST SAT MAR 1 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST TENNESSEE ...DECATUR COUNTY AT 715 AM CST A TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR NEAR SCOTTS HILL IN SOUTHWEST DECATUR COUNTY. THE TORNADO WILL PASS NEAR DECATURVILLE AND PERRYVILLE BY 735 AM CST AS IT MOVES NORTHEAST AT 40 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 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. 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, 4:09 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Macon, Sumner | 36 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, 7:21 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 |
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.