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Tornado Warning 145, NWS Nashville, TN

June 2, 1998Grundy County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 1998, 4:32 AM CDT for Grundy 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 2, 1998, 4:32 AM CDT (09:32 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 1998, 5:05 AM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Grundy County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 114 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBNA 020931 RRA
TORBNA
TNC061-021005-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
432 AM CDT TUE JUN 2 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  GRUNDY COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 505 AM CDT

* AT 432 AM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A TORNADO 5 MILES NORTH OF ALTAMONT OR 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  BEERSHEBA SPRINGS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT X40 MPH.

* TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  BEERSHEBA SPRINGS AT 440 AM CDT
  BARKERTOWN AT 450 AM CDT
  TATESVILLE AT 450 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
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, 3:04 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Cannon, Rutherford	51 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, 4:41 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.