Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 76, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Aug 19, 1997, 3:32 PM CDT for Robertson County, Sumner County, Tennessee. It was in force for 48 min. 1 report 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
- Aug 19, 1997, 3:32 PM CDT (20:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 1997, 4:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Robertson County, TN, Sumner County, TN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 4:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Cross Plains, TN | Numerous trees were blown down along Ruby Keith Road. A trampoline was wrapped around a telephone pole. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 41 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
- 122 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -126 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1001 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBNA 192033 RRA TORBNA TNC147-165-192120- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 332 PM CDT TUE AUG 19 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE TN HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 420 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE ...EASTERN ROBERTSON ...WESTERN SUMNER AT 330 PM CDT DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATES A TORNADO IN EASTERN ROBERTSON COUNTY JUST NORTHWEST OF WHITE HOUSE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM WILL PASS ACROSS HIGHWAY 65 AND CLOSE TO THE WHITE HOUSE...CROSS PLAINS AND GREENBRIER. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURZDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SAFETY 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 3:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Montgomery | 53 min |
| Aug 19, 3:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Robertson, Sumner | 35 min |
| Aug 19, 4:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Robertson | 48 min |
| Aug 19, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Stewart | 50 min |
| Aug 19, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Sumner | 47 min |
| Aug 19, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Trousdale, Wilson | 34 min |
| Aug 19, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Smith | 49 min |
| Aug 19, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Putnam | 44 min |
| Aug 19, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Decatur | 38 min |
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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.