Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1998, 4:44 AM CDT for Bledsoe County, Tennessee. It was in force for 31 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, 4:44 AM CDT (09:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1998, 5:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bledsoe County, TN
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 2:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Jun 2, 4:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
262 WUUS1 KBNA 020941 RRA SVRBNA TNC007-021015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 444 AM CDT TUE JUN 2 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BLEDSOE COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 515 AM CDT * AT 440 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PIKEVILLE NEAR HIGHWAY 127.... MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. CBD
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, 2:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wilson | 33 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, 4:53 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Sequatchie | 32 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.