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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 244, NWS Nashville, TN

June 2, 1998Wilson County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1998, 2:12 AM CDT for Wilson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 33 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: Jun 2, 1998, 2:12 AM CDT (07:12 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 1998, 2:45 AM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Wilson County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 27 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: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -459 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1888 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 258 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

544 
WUUS1 KBNA 020714 RRA
SVRBNA
TNC189-020745-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
212 AM CDT TUE JUN 2 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WILSON COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 245 AM CDT

* AT 211 AM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES EAST OF DOWNTOWN NASHVILLE OR 8
  MILES WEST OF SUGGS CREEK MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  MT. JULIET AT 220 AM CDT
  SUGGS CREEK AT 220 AM CDT
  BELINDA CITY AT 220 AM CDT
  BECKWITH AT 220 AM CDT
  INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 109 AND HIGHWAY 70 AT 225 AM CDT
  LEEVILLE AT 225 AM CDT
  GLADEVILLE AT 225 AM CDT
  INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 109 AND INTERSTATE 40 AT 225 AM CDT
  CEDARS OF LEBANON AT 230 AM CDT
  LEBANON AT 235 AM CDT
  CAINSVILLE AT 240 AM CDT

DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS

BOYD

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 Jun 1, 7:15 PM CDT, 6 hours 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 7:15 PM CDT, 6 hours 57 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
715 PM CDT MON JUN 1 1998

CURNT ZFP SHAPING UP WELL ATTM. RECOMMEND PUTTING POPS OFF TIL AFT
MIDNIGHT FOR NRN MID TN ZNS AS CLDS AND PCPN STILL A LONG WAY OFF.
NO OTHER CHANGES RECOMMENDED.

08

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 12:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton, Houston, Humphreys	33 min
Jun 2, 1:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson	49 min
Jun 2, 1:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson	64 min
Jun 2, 2:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Williamson	47 min
Jun 2, 2:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford	50 min
Jun 2, 3:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cannon	50 min
Jun 2, 3:04 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Cannon, Rutherford	51 min
Jun 2, 3:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Coffee	33 min
Jun 2, 3:42 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Coffee	33 min
Jun 2, 3:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Grundy, Warren	50 min
Jun 2, 3:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cannon, Warren	48 min
Jun 2, 4:20 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Warren	35 min
Jun 2, 4:32 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Grundy	33 min
Jun 2, 4:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Sequatchie	34 min
Jun 2, 4:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bledsoe	31 min
Jun 2, 4:53 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Sequatchie	32 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 1998 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.