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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 240, NWS Nashville, TN

June 1, 1998Lincoln County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 1998, 2:14 AM CDT for Lincoln County, Tennessee. It was in force for 61 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: Jun 1, 1998, 2:14 AM CDT (07:14 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 1998, 3:15 AM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Lincoln County, TN

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 1, 2:15 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Countywide, TN	Lincoln county EMA reported trees down countywide.
Jun 1, 2:15 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Countywide, TN	Lincoln county EMA reported trees down countywide.

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
May 31, 8:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 110 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 3629 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1064 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 156 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 302 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 5.1
Supercell composite: 21.7

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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 31, 7:03 PM CDT, 7 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 31, 7:03 PM CDT, 7 hours 11 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
703 PM CDT SUN MAY 31 1998

SFC FNT STILL N OF OH RIVER AT 00Z AND MOVG SLOLY SEWD. RADAR SHOWS
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING HEADING TWD FA. STILL BLV WE WL SEE SOME ACTIVITY
ALONG THE FNT...ALTHO ANY TSRA STILL HRS AWAY.

THEREFORE RECOMMEND MENTION OF SVR BE REMOVED FROM MID TN ZNS FOR TNGT
W/ CHC OF TS PUSHED TO AFTER MIDNIGHT.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 31, 10:05 PM CDT, 4 hours 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1005 PM CDT SUN MAY 31 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0955 PM    DOVER                     TN   WIND DAMAGE
05/31/98   STEWART                        REPORTED BY EMA

Local storm report, May 31, 10:36 PM CDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1036 PM CDT SUN MAY 31 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1030 PM    5N CUMBERLAND FURNACE     TN   66 MPH TSTM GUST
05/31/98   DICKSON                        REPORTED BY SPOTTER

1030 PM    5N CUMBERLAND FURNACE     TN   66 MPH TSTM GUST
05/31/98   MONTGOMERY                     REPORTED BY SPOTTER

Local storm report, May 31, 10:36 PM CDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1036 PM CDT SUN MAY 31 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1030 PM    5N CUMBERLAND FURNACE     TN   66 MPH TSTM GUST
05/31/98   DICKSON                        REPORTED BY SPOTTER

1030 PM    5N CUMBERLAND FURNACE     TN   66 MPH TSTM GUST
05/31/98   MONTGOMERY                     REPORTED BY SPOTTER

The office that day

Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 31, 9:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Stewart	41 min
May 31, 9:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Stewart	35 min
May 31, 9:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Houston, Montgomery	51 min
May 31, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson	47 min
May 31, 10:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Sumner	49 min
May 31, 10:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Pickett	18 min
May 31, 10:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Sumner	35 min
May 31, 10:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Cheatham	52 min
Jun 1, 12:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford	51 min
Jun 1, 1:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Coffee, Rutherford	46 min
Jun 1, 2:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Marshall	35 min
Jun 1, 2:07 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Marshall	33 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.