Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 142, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 1998, 3:04 AM CDT for Cannon County, Rutherford County, Tennessee. It was in force for 51 min. 2 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
- Jun 2, 1998, 3:04 AM CDT (08:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1998, 3:55 AM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cannon County, TN, Rutherford County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:07 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 3:15 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Woodbury, TN | Trees were blown down along Hollow Springs Rd. |
| Jun 2, 3:15 AM CDT | Tornado F1 | Smyrna, TN | 2 buildings were destroyed by the tornado. The tornado destroyed Grand Slam USA, which was a metal building with an indoor sports facility. Metal beams were ripped up and slammed back down onto the back of the facility. Grand Slam USA was located on Stroop Lan |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 2:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 47 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -459 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1888 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
751 WFUS1 KBNA 020806 RRA TORBNA TNC015-149-020855- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 304 AM CDT TUE JUN 2 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CANNON COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE EASTERN RUTHERFORD COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE * UNTIL 355 AM CDT * AT 303 AM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MURFREESBORO MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... READYVILLE AT 310 AM CDT CURLEE AT 315 AM CDT BRADYVILLE AT 315 AM CDT BURT AT 315 AM CDT WOODBURY AT 320 AM CDT SHEYBOGAN AT 325 AM CDT BLUEWING AT 325 AM CDT PLEASANT VIEW AT 330 AM CDT IF YOU ARE IN A MULTIPLE STORY BUILDING...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. BOYD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 12:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton, Houston, Humphreys | 33 min |
| Jun 2, 1:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson | 49 min |
| Jun 2, 1:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson | 64 min |
| Jun 2, 2:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wilson | 33 min |
| Jun 2, 2:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Williamson | 47 min |
| Jun 2, 2:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford | 50 min |
| Jun 2, 3:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon | 50 min |
| Jun 2, 3:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Coffee | 33 min |
| Jun 2, 3:42 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Coffee | 33 min |
| Jun 2, 3:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Grundy, Warren | 50 min |
| Jun 2, 3:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon, Warren | 48 min |
| Jun 2, 4:20 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Warren | 35 min |
| Jun 2, 4:32 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Grundy | 33 min |
| Jun 2, 4:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Sequatchie | 34 min |
| Jun 2, 4:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bledsoe | 31 min |
| Jun 2, 4:53 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Sequatchie | 32 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.