Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 121, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Apr 16, 1998, 8:29 PM CDT for Marion County, Tennessee. It was in force for 66 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
- Apr 16, 1998, 8:29 PM CDT (01:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 1998, 9:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marion 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 221 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
- 1217 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 573 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 280 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 368 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.0
- Supercell composite
- 10.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
937 WFUS1 KBNA 170130 RRA TORBNA TNC115-170235- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 829 PM CDT THU APR 16 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MARION COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 935 PM CDT * AT 827 PM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 7 MILES EAST OF WINCHESTER MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... MONTEAGLE AT 835 PM CDT GRIFFITH CREEK AT 900 PM CDT GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 7:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Robertson, Sumner | 32 min |
| Apr 16, 7:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Giles | 49 min |
| Apr 16, 7:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Coffee, Franklin | 49 min |
| Apr 16, 7:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Lincoln | 51 min |
| Apr 16, 7:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Maury | 46 min |
| Apr 16, 7:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford, Moore | 48 min |
| Apr 16, 7:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Grundy | 46 min |
| Apr 16, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Warren | 35 min |
| Apr 16, 7:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Marshall | 48 min |
| Apr 16, 7:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Sequatchie | 47 min |
| Apr 16, 7:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Franklin | 46 min |
| Apr 16, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Lincoln | 50 min |
| Apr 16, 8:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Moore | 32 min |
| Apr 16, 8:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Van Buren | 46 min |
| Apr 16, 8:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bledsoe | 47 min |
| Apr 16, 8:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford, Coffee | 48 min |
| Apr 16, 8:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Grundy | 47 min |
| Apr 16, 8:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Grundy | 40 min |
| Apr 16, 8:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Franklin | 21 min |
| Apr 16, 9:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Marion, Sequatchie | 35 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.