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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Apr 3, 1998, 1:50 PM CST for Montgomery County, Tennessee. It was in force for 45 min. 5 reports 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
- Apr 3, 1998, 1:50 PM CST (19:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 1998, 2:35 PM CST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Montgomery County, TN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 1:58 PM CST | Hail 1 | Mc Allisters Xrds, TN | Spotter reported quarter size hail. |
| Apr 3, 2:09 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Clarksville, TN | Sheriff's office and SKYWARN Spotter reported golf ball size hail. |
| Apr 3, 2:10 PM CST | Tornado F2 | Hilltop, TN | 67 homes were damaged in the Hilltop area, and about 7 homes received major damage. Most of the damage was to roofs. Trees were blown down. |
| Apr 3, 2:15 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Clarksville, TN | Spotter reported dome size hail. |
| Apr 3, 2:20 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 80 | Hilltop, TN | Ham radio operator reported homes damaged and large trees uprooted. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 12:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 888 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBNA 031950 RRA TORBNA TNC043-085-125-032035- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 150 PM CST FRI APR 3 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE TN HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 235 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE ...DICKSON ...HUMPHREYS ...MONTGOMERY AT 145 PM CST DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR INDIAN MOUND IN EASTERN STEWART COUNTY MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. ANOTHER TORNADO WAS INDICATED 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF DICKSON MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. AND YET ANOTHER TORNADO WAS INDICATED 5 MILES SOUTH OF WAVERLY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT. BOYD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 3:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles | 27 min |
| Apr 3, 12:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Coffee, Franklin, Moore | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 12:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton, Humphreys | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 1:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Benton, Humphreys | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 1:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Lincoln | 29 min |
| Apr 3, 1:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Stewart | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 1:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Houston | 33 min |
| Apr 3, 1:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Franklin | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 1:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall | 33 min |
| Apr 3, 1:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Dickson, Humphreys | 45 min |
| Apr 3, 2:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Grundy, Marion | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 2:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cheatham | 35 min |
| Apr 3, 2:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford | 62 min |
| Apr 3, 2:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Marshall | 62 min |
| Apr 3, 2:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Robertson | 62 min |
| Apr 3, 2:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 2:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 2:46 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Sumner | 64 min |
| Apr 3, 2:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb, Warren | 62 min |
| Apr 3, 3:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Hickman, Williamson | 62 min |
| Apr 3, 3:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Coffee | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 3:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Smith, Trousdale, Wilson | 64 min |
| Apr 3, 3:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson | 61 min |
| Apr 3, 3:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Macon | 64 min |
| Apr 3, 3:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Grundy, Marion, Sequatchie | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 3:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles | 31 min |
| Apr 3, 3:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Maury, Williamson | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 3:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lincoln | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 3:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson, Sumner | 47 min |
| Apr 3, 3:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Clay, Jackson | 31 min |
| Apr 3, 4:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford, Wilson | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 4:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman | 33 min |
| Apr 3, 4:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Coffee | 50 min |
| Apr 3, 4:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Clay, Jackson, Overton, Pickett | 65 min |
| Apr 3, 4:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 4:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb | 33 min |
| Apr 3, 4:34 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford | 51 min |
| Apr 3, 4:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | DeKalb | 35 min |
| Apr 3, 4:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wayne | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 4:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Franklin, Lincoln | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 4:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Maury | 46 min |
| Apr 3, 4:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | White | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 4:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Coffee, Warren | 50 min |
| Apr 3, 4:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Putnam | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 5:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Montgomery | 46 min |
| Apr 3, 5:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Lewis | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 5:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Van Buren, Warren | 50 min |
| Apr 3, 5:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Hickman, Humphreys | 51 min |
| Apr 3, 5:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Marion, Sequatchie | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 5:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Maury | 50 min |
| Apr 3, 5:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | White | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 5:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lincoln, Marshall | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 5:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Williamson | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 5:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Rutherford | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 5:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bledsoe | 51 min |
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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.