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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Nashville, TN

March 8, 1998Marshall County, Maury County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Mar 8, 1998, 4:02 PM CST for Marshall County, Maury County, Tennessee. It was in force for 48 min. 1 report 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: Mar 8, 1998, 4:02 PM CST (22:02 UTC)
Expired: Mar 8, 1998, 4:50 PM CST
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:06 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 8, 4:05 PM CST	Tornado F0	Bryant Station, TN	A woman saw a tornado from her home.

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 nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 71 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: 586 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 335 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 356 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.

024 
WFUS1 KBNA 082201 RRA
TORBNA
TNC117-119-082250-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
402 PM CST SUN MAR 8 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE TN HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 450 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE

   ...WESTERN MARSHALL
   ...EASTERN MAURY
AT 400 PM CST DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO DEVELOPING
ALONG INTERSTATE 65 BETWEEN LEWISBURG AND CULLEOKA MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 50 MPH.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO
BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SAFETY IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A
CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...OR CUSHIONS TO
COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 8, 3:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Marion	52 min
Mar 8, 4:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Williamson	31 min
Mar 8, 4:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Grundy	35 min
Mar 8, 4:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Van Buren	30 min
Mar 8, 5:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson	32 min
Mar 8, 5:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	White	35 min
Mar 8, 5:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Sumner	32 min
Mar 8, 5:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford, Wilson	48 min
Mar 8, 5:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Sumner	31 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.