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Tornado Warning 61, NWS Nashville, TN

March 28, 1997Coffee County, Franklin County, Lincoln County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Mar 28, 1997, 10:25 PM CST for Coffee County, Franklin County, Lincoln County, Tennessee. It was in force for 50 min. 7 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 28, 1997, 10:25 PM CST (04:25 UTC)
Expired: Mar 28, 1997, 11:15 PM CST
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Coffee County, TN, Franklin County, TN, Lincoln County, TN

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
Mar 28, 10:25 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Kelso, TN
Mar 28, 10:38 PM CST	Hail 1.75	Huntland, TN
Mar 28, 10:38 PM CST	Tornado F0	Hillsboro, TN
Mar 28, 10:40 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Fayetteville, TN
Mar 28, 10:40 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Manchester, TN
Mar 28, 11:00 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Winchester, TN
Mar 28, 11:00 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Cowan, 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 28, 9:45 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 101 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1331 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1544 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 223 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 390 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.1
Supercell composite: 11.6

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KBNA 290423 RRA
TORBNA
TNC031-051-103-290515-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1025 PM CST FRI MAR 28 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...COFFEE COUNTY...FRANKLIN COUNTY...LINCOLN COUNTY
 
AT 1023 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED TWO TORNADOES...ONE NEAR
TULLAHOMA...AND ANOTHER JUST WEST OF FAYETTEVILLE. THE TORNADO NEAR
TULLAHOMA WILL MOVE EAST AT 40 MPH...AND WILL REACH MANCHESTER BY MOVE
EAST TO NEAR HILLSBORO BY 1045 PM. THE TORNADO JUST WEST OF FAYETTEVILLE
WILL MOVE EAST AT AROUND 40 MPH...AND WILL REACH SMITHLAND BY 1040
PM...BELVIDERE BY 1050 PM AND JUST SOUTHEAST OF WINCHESTER BY
11 PM. YOU SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.
 
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

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 28, 6:00 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Robertson	45 min
Mar 28, 6:16 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Sumner	44 min
Mar 28, 6:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton	41 min
Mar 28, 6:22 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Davidson, Wilson	38 min
Mar 28, 6:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Houston, Humphreys	44 min
Mar 28, 6:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Decatur	56 min
Mar 28, 6:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Perry	39 min
Mar 28, 6:55 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Dickson, Humphreys	50 min
Mar 28, 7:01 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Benton, Decatur	44 min
Mar 28, 7:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lewis	43 min
Mar 28, 7:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham	51 min
Mar 28, 7:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman, Maury	44 min
Mar 28, 7:43 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson	47 min
Mar 28, 7:54 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Wayne	51 min
Mar 28, 8:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Sumner, Wilson	44 min
Mar 28, 8:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Williamson	49 min
Mar 28, 8:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Macon, Trousdale	50 min
Mar 28, 8:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford	44 min
Mar 28, 8:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence	49 min
Mar 28, 8:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Smith	36 min
Mar 28, 9:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Marshall	43 min
Mar 28, 9:06 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Smith	54 min
Mar 28, 9:12 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Jackson	48 min
Mar 28, 9:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford, Wilson	37 min
Mar 28, 9:26 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	DeKalb, Wilson	49 min
Mar 28, 9:35 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Giles, Lawrence	40 min
Mar 28, 9:40 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Overton	50 min
Mar 28, 9:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Sumner	31 min
Mar 28, 9:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford	27 min
Mar 28, 10:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Putnam	40 min
Mar 28, 10:10 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Putnam	50 min
Mar 28, 10:37 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Grundy	38 min
Mar 28, 10:55 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Sequatchie	65 min
Mar 28, 11:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Marion	44 min
Mar 28, 11:16 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Bledsoe	44 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.