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Tornado Warning 141, NWS Nashville, TN

June 1, 1998Marshall County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Jun 1, 1998, 2:07 AM CDT for Marshall County, Tennessee. It was in force for 33 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: Jun 1, 1998, 2:07 AM CDT (07:07 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 1998, 2:40 AM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

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

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 75 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.

719 
WFUS1 KBNA 010709 RRA
TORBNA
TNC117-010740-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
207 AM CDT MON JUN 1 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN MARSHALL COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 240 AM CDT

* AT 207 AM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LEWISBURG OR 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  CORNERSVILLE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  CORNERSVILLE AT 210 AM CDT
  OSTELLA AT 220 AM CDT
  TALLEY AT 225 AM CDT
  DELINA AT 230 AM CDT

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

BOYD

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, 9:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Houston, Montgomery	51 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, 2:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lincoln	61 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.