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Tornado Warning 124, NWS Nashville, TN

April 16, 1998Franklin County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Apr 16, 1998, 8:44 PM CDT for Franklin County, Tennessee. It was in force for 21 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, 8:44 PM CDT (01:44 UTC)
Expired
Apr 16, 1998, 9:05 PM CDT
In force
21 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Franklin County, TN

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Apr 16, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 229 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Birmingham, AL at 00:00Z on 1998-04-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1586 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Birmingham, AL at 00:00Z on 1998-04-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 270 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1586 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
645 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
74 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
270 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
336 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
3.6
Supercell composite
16.9

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

987 
WFUS1 KBNA 170145 RRA
TORBNA
TNC051-170205-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
844 PM CDT THU APR 16 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 905 PM CDT

* AT 843 PM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WINCHESTER MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  FLINTVILLE AT 850 PM CDT

GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 16, 7:03 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXRobertson, Sumner32 min
Apr 16, 7:11 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXGiles49 min
Apr 16, 7:16 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXCoffee, Franklin49 min
Apr 16, 7:19 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXLincoln51 min
Apr 16, 7:24 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXMaury46 min
Apr 16, 7:27 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXBedford, Moore48 min
Apr 16, 7:34 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXGrundy46 min
Apr 16, 7:45 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXWarren35 min
Apr 16, 7:47 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXMarshall48 min
Apr 16, 7:53 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXSequatchie47 min
Apr 16, 7:59 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXFranklin46 min
Apr 16, 8:00 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXLincoln50 min
Apr 16, 8:08 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXMoore32 min
Apr 16, 8:09 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXVan Buren46 min
Apr 16, 8:18 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXBledsoe47 min
Apr 16, 8:27 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXBedford, Coffee48 min
Apr 16, 8:29 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXMarion66 min
Apr 16, 8:33 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXGrundy47 min
Apr 16, 8:40 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXGrundy40 min
Apr 16, 9:40 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXMarion, Sequatchie35 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.