Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 77, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Aug 19, 1997, 3:37 PM CDT for Montgomery County, Tennessee. It was in force for 53 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
- Aug 19, 1997, 3:37 PM CDT (20:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 1997, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Montgomery 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 81 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 192039 RRA TORBNA TNC125-192130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 337 PM CDT TUE AUG 19 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE ...NORTHERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY AT 335 PM CDT DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO ON THE KENTUCKY...TENNESSEE BORDER JUST NORTH CLARKSVILLE NEAR OAK GROVE KENTUCKY MOVING EAST 20 MPH. AREAS ALONG THE KENTUCKY...TENNESSEE BORDER OF NORTHERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY WILL BE AFFECTED BY THIS TORNADO. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBEN\CH 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 3:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Robertson, Sumner | 48 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 |
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.