Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 1998, 12:56 PM CST for Benton County, Humphreys County, Tennessee. It was in force for 49 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
- Apr 3, 1998, 12:56 PM CST (18:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 1998, 1:45 PM CST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Benton County, TN, Humphreys County, TN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 1:00 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Camden, TN | SKYWARN Spotter reported dime size hail at Eva.. |
| Apr 3, 1:19 PM CST | Hail 1 | Waverly, TN | Local law enforcement reported quarter size hail. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 12:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 888 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
236 WUUS1 KBNA 031857 RRA SVRBNA TNC005-085-031945- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1256 PM CST FRI APR 3 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE TN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 145 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST TENNESSEE ...BENTON IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE ...HUMPHREYS AT 1255 PM CST DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR CAMDEN MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL REMAIN NORTH OF HIGHWAY 70 AND MOVE TO JUST NORTH OF WAVERLY BY 115 PM CST. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. BOYD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 3:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles | 27 min |
| Apr 3, 12:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Coffee, Franklin, Moore | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 1:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Benton, Humphreys | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 1:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Lincoln | 29 min |
| Apr 3, 1:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Stewart | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 1:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Houston | 33 min |
| Apr 3, 1:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Franklin | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 1:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall | 33 min |
| Apr 3, 1:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Dickson, Humphreys | 45 min |
| Apr 3, 1:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Montgomery | 45 min |
| Apr 3, 2:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Grundy, Marion | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 2:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cheatham | 35 min |
| Apr 3, 2:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford | 62 min |
| Apr 3, 2:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Marshall | 62 min |
| Apr 3, 2:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Robertson | 62 min |
| Apr 3, 2:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 2:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 2:46 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Sumner | 64 min |
| Apr 3, 2:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb, Warren | 62 min |
| Apr 3, 3:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Hickman, Williamson | 62 min |
| Apr 3, 3:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Coffee | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 3:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Smith, Trousdale, Wilson | 64 min |
| Apr 3, 3:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson | 61 min |
| Apr 3, 3:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Macon | 64 min |
| Apr 3, 3:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Grundy, Marion, Sequatchie | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 3:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles | 31 min |
| Apr 3, 3:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Maury, Williamson | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 3:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lincoln | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 3:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson, Sumner | 47 min |
| Apr 3, 3:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Clay, Jackson | 31 min |
| Apr 3, 4:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford, Wilson | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 4:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman | 33 min |
| Apr 3, 4:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Coffee | 50 min |
| Apr 3, 4:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Clay, Jackson, Overton, Pickett | 65 min |
| Apr 3, 4:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 4:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb | 33 min |
| Apr 3, 4:34 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford | 51 min |
| Apr 3, 4:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | DeKalb | 35 min |
| Apr 3, 4:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wayne | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 4:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Franklin, Lincoln | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 4:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Maury | 46 min |
| Apr 3, 4:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | White | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 4:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Coffee, Warren | 50 min |
| Apr 3, 4:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Putnam | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 5:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Montgomery | 46 min |
| Apr 3, 5:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Lewis | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 5:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Van Buren, Warren | 50 min |
| Apr 3, 5:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Hickman, Humphreys | 51 min |
| Apr 3, 5:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Marion, Sequatchie | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 5:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Maury | 50 min |
| Apr 3, 5:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | White | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 5:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lincoln, Marshall | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 5:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Williamson | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 5:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Rutherford | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 5:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bledsoe | 51 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.