Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 79, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Aug 19, 1997, 4:27 PM CDT for Robertson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 48 min. 2 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
- Aug 19, 1997, 4:27 PM CDT (21:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 1997, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Robertson 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. |
| Aug 19, 5:10 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | White House, TN | Skywarn Spotter reported wind gusts up to 60 mph just west of White House at I-65 and state route 76. |
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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 50 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 192129 RRA TORBNA TNC147-192215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 427 PM CDT TUE AUG 19 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE ...ROBERTSON COUNTY AT 427 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. IT WILL MOVE NEAR ORLINDA AND CROSS PLAINS BY 5 PM. THIS EXTENDS THE PREVIOUS WARNING. 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 BASEMENTb 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.
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, 3:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Montgomery | 53 min |
| Aug 19, 3:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Robertson, Sumner | 35 min |
| Aug 19, 4:55 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.