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Tornado Warning 72, NWS Nashville, TN

May 26, 1997Decatur County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at May 26, 1997, 7:38 PM CDT for Decatur County, Tennessee. It was in force for 37 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: May 26, 1997, 7:38 PM CDT (00:38 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 1997, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Decatur County, TN

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 26, 4:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 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.

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: 2010 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 634 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 100 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 153 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 6.4

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The text

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

575 
WFUS1 KBNA 270041 RRA
TORBNA
TNC039-270115-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
738 PM CDT MON MAY 26 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  815 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST TENNESSEE
 
   ...DECATUR COUNTY
 
A TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR AT 735 PM CDT
5 MILES NORTHWEST OF PARSONS MOVING SOUTH AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
 
THE TORNADO WILL PASS NEAR PARSONS BY 745 PM AND NEAR THE TENNESSEE
RIVER ALONG HIGHWAY 412 BY 755 PM CDT.
 
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
May 26, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Decatur	46 min
May 26, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Humphreys, Perry	45 min
May 26, 8:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman	61 min
May 26, 9:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Houston	25 min
May 26, 9:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson	52 min
May 26, 9:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson, Montgomery	34 min
May 26, 10:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford	50 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.