Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Nashville, TN

Issued

Apr 8, 1998, 2:52 AM CDT (07:52 UTC)

Expired

Apr 8, 1998, 3:30 AM CDT

In force

38 min

Issued by

NWS Nashville, TN

Area

Whole counties

County Davidson County, TN

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

905 
WUUS1 KBNA 080753 RRA
SVRBNA
TNC037-080830-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
252 AM CDT WED APR 8 1998
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  330 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...DAVIDSON COUNTY
 
AT 253 AM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH
OF DOWNTOWN NASHVILLE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM WILL
PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AS IT MOVES THROUGH THE COUNTY.
 
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.

NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 8, 1:50 AM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
150 AM CDT WED APR 8 1998

LN OF SHWRS/TSTMS MOVG INTO NW FA ZNS COINCIDG NICELY WITH SFC MSTR
CNVGNC/SURGE OF HIER DWPT AIR.  SUSPECT WITH DWPTS ROUGHLY 60-65 ACRS
FA AND VWP DATA...STUFF WL HOLD TOGTHR THRU 12Z.  SOME STRMS LEANG AND
WITH STRNG LO-LVL JET...BLV WND DAMAGE CUD OCCUR LCLLY...SPCLY ACRS
NRN CNTYS.  PSBLY ISOLD TOR.

BLV WE WILL SEE A LULL THRU LATE MRNG BUT JET STRUCTURE AND UPR DYNAMICS
BECM AGAIN FAVRBL FOR SVR TSTMS LATE THIS AFTN...NOT TO MENTION AFFECTS
FM HEATG.  SUSPECT HOWEVR WITH SOMEWHAT LIMITD DEEP MSTR...TSTMS WL BE
SCT IN NATURE THRU 00Z.  CURRNT ZNS SEEM FINE WITH 60%.

XPCT MN CDFNT WL REACH BNA VCNTY ARND 12Z AND WUD ALSO ANTICIPATE FAIRLY
HI POPS TNGT AS DEEP MSTR POOLS JUST AHEAD.  SVR POTENTIAL MAY EXTEND
INTO LATE EVENG BUT BLV BETTR INGREDIENTS FOR SVR WX WL BE E OF AREA
06Z DESPITE MSTR ON LEADG EGDE OF CDFNT.

FEW SHWRS MAY WRAP-ARND BACK SIDE OF LO THU. 07

BNA 77/53/64 583

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.