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Tornado Warning 138, NWS Nashville, TN

May 31, 1998Houston County, Montgomery County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at May 31, 1998, 9:59 PM CDT for Houston County, Montgomery County, Tennessee. It was in force for 51 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: May 31, 1998, 9:59 PM CDT (02:59 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 1998, 10:50 PM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Houston County, TN, Montgomery County, TN

The radar

The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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
May 31, 10:30 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 57	Mc Allisters Xrds, TN	Spotter reported wind gust of 66 mph. He lives on Dickson-Montgomery county border.

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
May 31, 8:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 90 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: 3629 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1064 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 156 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 302 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 5.1
Supercell composite: 21.7

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The text

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

674 
WFUS1 KBNA 010301 RRA
TORBNA
TNC083-125-010350-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
959 PM CDT SUN MAY 31 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN HOUSTON COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
  MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 1050 PM CDT

* AT 958 PM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A TORNADO 8 MILES NORTH OF ERIN MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  SHILOH AT 1005 PM CDT
  MARION AT 1010 PM CDT
  CUNNINGHAM AT 1010 PM CDT
  CABIN ROW AT 1015 PM CDT
  SOUTHSIDE AT 1020 PM CDT

ABANDON MOBILE HOMES GO IN A NEARBY STURDY BUILDING. AS A LAST
RESORT LIE FLAT IN A DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD.

MAR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 31, 9:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Stewart	41 min
May 31, 9:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Stewart	35 min
May 31, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson	47 min
May 31, 10:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Sumner	49 min
May 31, 10:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Pickett	18 min
May 31, 10:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Sumner	35 min
May 31, 10:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Cheatham	52 min
Jun 1, 12:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford	51 min
Jun 1, 1:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Coffee, Rutherford	46 min
Jun 1, 2:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Marshall	35 min
Jun 1, 2:07 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Marshall	33 min
Jun 1, 2:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lincoln	61 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.