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Tornado Warning 67, NWS Nashville, TN

May 2, 1997Bedford County, Lincoln County, Moore County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at May 2, 1997, 5:38 PM CDT for Bedford County, Lincoln County, Moore County, Tennessee. It was in force for 37 min. 5 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: May 2, 1997, 5:38 PM CDT (22:38 UTC)
Expired: May 2, 1997, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Bedford County, TN, Lincoln County, TN, Moore County, TN

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 2, 5:49 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Wheel, TN	Sheriff's office reported dime size hail.
May 2, 5:49 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Normandy, TN	Sheriff's office reported many power lines down.
May 2, 5:49 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Flat Creek, TN	Sheriff's office reported many power lines down.
May 2, 5:50 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Dellrose, TN	Local law enforcement reported a few trees blown down.
May 2, 5:55 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Lynchburg, TN	Sheriff's office reported large tree limbs down.

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 nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 92 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2241 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 160 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 297 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBNA 022238 RRA
TORBNA
TNC003-103-127-022315-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
538 PM CDT FRI MAY 2 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...BEDFORD COUNTY...LINCOLN COUNTY...MOORE COUNTY
 
AT 537 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED TWO TORNADOES...ONE ABOUT 10
MILES NORTHWEST OF SHELBYVILLE...AND ANOTHER ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF
FAYETTEVILLE NEAR DELLROSE. THE TORNADOES WERE MOVING EAST AT AROUND 45
MPH...AND WILL MOVE TO ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF SHELBYVILLE NEAR DEASON
AND BELL BUCKLE AND TO NEAR FAYETTEVILLE BY 550 PM. YOU SHOULD TAKE
COVER NOW.
 
TT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 2, 5:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Marshall	31 min
May 2, 5:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Franklin	46 min
May 2, 5:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Coffee	52 min
May 2, 6:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Grundy, Marion	44 min
May 2, 6:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Warren	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.