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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 271, NWS Nashville, TN

June 5, 1998Putnam County, White County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1998, 5:10 PM CDT for Putnam County, White County, Tennessee. It was in force for 60 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 5, 1998, 5:10 PM CDT (22:10 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 1998, 6:10 PM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Putnam County, TN, White County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:13 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 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 102 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 552 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -146 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -71 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.

719 
WUUS1 KBNA 052208 RRA
SVRBNA
TNC141-185-052310-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
510 PM CDT FRI JUN 5 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN PUTNAM COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
  NORTHERN WHITE COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 610 PM CDT

* AT 506 PM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTH OF COOKEVILLE MOVING EAST AT
  35 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BROTHERTON AT 515 PM CDT
  MONTEREY AT 525 PM CDT

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

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 5, 2:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 2:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
200 PM CDT FRI JUN 5 1998

CONVECTIVE COMPLEX WORKING ENE ALONG THE SRN TN BORDER WITH ONLY A FEW
STRAGLERS N MID TN.  LOOKS AS IF THE RA WILL STAY GENERALLY SOUTH OF
I-40 AND THE PRECIP MOVING TOWARDS THE TN RIVER IS DUMPING LESS THAN A
QUARTER INCH AN HOUR.  WHILE SOME SHRA FORMING RIGHT ALONG FRONT...
THINK ONLY CHC POP NEEDED FOR DOVER-BNA-COOKEVILLE.  CAT POPS NEEDED
FOR SOUTH AS RA ALMOST ON TOP OF THEM. SOUTH DIDNT RECEIVE THE RAIN
EARLIER THAT THE NORTH DID AND WITH THE LIGHT AMOUNTS...DONT THINK FFA
NEEDS TO BE EXTENDED.

FRONT LOOKS TO BE MOVING AT A GOOD CLIP BUT WORRY THAT SWD PROGRESSION
WILL SLOW IN RESPONSE TO INCREASINGLY ZONAL FLOW ALOFT.  THEREFORE
LEANING TOWARDS THE SIGHTLY SLOWER ETA MOVEMENT WHICH WOULD PUT FRONT
THROUGH MID TN BETWEEN 06Z AND 12Z. AFTER FROPA LLVL THICKNESS DROP
ABOUT 80 M AND BY SUN THINGS DRY OUT NICELY.

GUID TEMPS CLOSE AND ACCEPTED.
12
BNA 61/73/52/74  4-00            LAWRENCEBURG 63/75/53/76 8-00

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 12:44 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Benton, Houston, Montgomery, Stewart	3 hr
Jun 5, 1:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson, Houston, Montgomery, Stewart	49 min
Jun 5, 1:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham	48 min
Jun 5, 2:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson	47 min
Jun 5, 2:32 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Davidson, Rutherford, Williamson, Wilson	3 hr
Jun 5, 2:42 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Macon, Sumner, Trousdale	3 hr
Jun 5, 3:39 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Dickson, Houston, Montgomery, Stewart	3 hr
Jun 5, 3:39 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Benton, Humphreys	3 hr
Jun 5, 3:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Decatur, Perry	46 min
Jun 5, 3:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wayne	47 min
Jun 5, 4:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence	42 min
Jun 5, 4:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles	31 min
Jun 5, 5:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lincoln	31 min
Jun 5, 5:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Franklin	49 min
Jun 5, 5:37 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Davidson, Rutherford, Sumner, Trousdale, Wilson	3 hr
Jun 5, 5:37 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Robertson, Williamson	3 hr
Jun 5, 5:37 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Macon	3 hr
Jun 5, 5:58 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Bledsoe, Grundy, Marion, Sequatchie	3 hr
Jun 5, 5:58 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Bedford, Franklin, Lincoln, Moore	3 hr
Jun 5, 5:58 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Coffee	3 hr
Jun 5, 6:38 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Montgomery	3 hr
Jun 5, 5:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Smith	45 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.