Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 163, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 1998, 5:56 PM CDT for Stewart County, Tennessee. It was in force for 49 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 6, 1998, 5:56 PM CDT (22:56 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 1998, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stewart County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1243 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 6, 1:30 PM CDT, 4 hours 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 6, 1:30 PM CDT, 4 hours 26 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 6, 1:06 PM CDT, 4 hours 50 minutes before
TNZ005>011-022>033-055>065-075>082-093>098-070540- MIDDLE TENNESSEE SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 106 PM CDT WED MAY 6 1998 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE ACROSS MIDDLE TENNESSEE LATE THIS AFTERNOON...TONIGHT AND THURSDAY... EARLY THIS AFTERNOON A WARM FRONT WAS MOVING NORTH THROUGH SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE AND AS A RESULT WARM...MOIST AIR WAS FLOWING NORTHWARD. BY LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BE QUITE UNSTABLE ACROSS MUCH OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE AND ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT FORM COULD BECOME SEVERE RATHER QUICKLY WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGAING WINDS. TONIGHT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE AS INSTABILITY REMAINS HIGH AND UPPER LEVEL WINDS BECOME MORE SUPPORTIVE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. ON THURSDAY INSTABILITY WILL BE VERY HIGH ACROSS MIDDLE TENNESSEE. COUPLED WITH DAYTIME HEATING AND AN UPPER LEVEL JET CONFIGURATION WHICH WILL BE VERY CONDUCIVE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES. BECAUSE OF THE HIGH INSTABILITY OF THE ATMOSPHERE...RESIDENTS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE SHOULD BE AWARE THAT THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER IS REAL ESPECIALLY TONIGHT AND AGAIN ON THURSDAY AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND WARNINGS SHOULD THEY BECOME NECESSARY. STORM SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION LATER THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE NIGHT TIME HOURS AND ON THURSDAY. MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO... COMMERCIAL RADIO...TV AND CABLE TELEVISION OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST FORECAST AND INFORMATION. BOYD
Special weather statement, May 6, 1:06 PM CDT, 4 hours 50 minutes before
TNZ005>011-022>033-055>065-075>082-093>098-070540- MIDDLE TENNESSEE SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 106 PM CDT WED MAY 6 1998 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE ACROSS MIDDLE TENNESSEE LATE THIS AFTERNOON...TONIGHT AND THURSDAY... EARLY THIS AFTERNOON A WARM FRONT WAS MOVING NORTH THROUGH SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE AND AS A RESULT WARM...MOIST AIR WAS FLOWING NORTHWARD. BY LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BE QUITE UNSTABLE ACROSS MUCH OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE AND ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT FORM COULD BECOME SEVERE RATHER QUICKLY WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGAING WINDS. TONIGHT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE AS INSTABILITY REMAINS HIGH AND UPPER LEVEL WINDS BECOME MORE SUPPORTIVE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. ON THURSDAY INSTABILITY WILL BE VERY HIGH ACROSS MIDDLE TENNESSEE. COUPLED WITH DAYTIME HEATING AND AN UPPER LEVEL JET CONFIGURATION WHICH WILL BE VERY CONDUCIVE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES. BECAUSE OF THE HIGH INSTABILITY OF THE ATMOSPHERE...RESIDENTS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE SHOULD BE AWARE THAT THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER IS REAL ESPECIALLY TONIGHT AND AGAIN ON THURSDAY AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND WARNINGS SHOULD THEY BECOME NECESSARY. STORM SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION LATER THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE NIGHT TIME HOURS AND ON THURSDAY. MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO... COMMERCIAL RADIO...TV AND CABLE TELEVISION OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST FORECAST AND INFORMATION. BOYD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 1:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Benton | 3 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998
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.