Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 146, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 1998, 4:53 AM CDT for Sequatchie County, Tennessee. It was in force for 32 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, 4:53 AM CDT (09:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1998, 5:25 AM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sequatchie 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 4:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 137 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.
295 WFUS1 KBNA 020950 RRA TORBNA TNC153-021025- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 453 AM CDT TUE JUN 2 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN SEQUATCHIE COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 525 AM CDT * AT 452 AM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 9 MILES EAST OF ALTAMONT OR 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF DAUS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... DAUS AT 505 AM CDT CARTWRIGHT AT 505 AM CDT LONE OAK AT 515 AM CDT IF YOU ARE IN A MULTIPLE STORY BUILDING...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. CBD
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Jun 2, 3:25 AM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 3:25 AM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 325 AM CDT JUN 2 1998 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 8 AM... TSTORM HAVE DEVELOPED RAPIDLY ALONG NE/SW ORIENTED WARM FRONT ACROSS FA THIS MRNG. MID LEVEL JET STREAK EVIDENT ON IR SAT IMAGERY AS WELL AS 70+ DEGREE DEWPOINTS FEEDING INTO STORMS HAS ADDED FUEL TO THE FIRE. THUS...NOT MUCH TIME TO LOOK AT GRIDDED DATA. EXPECT FRONTAL BOUNDARY TO REMAIN NEARLY STATIONARY ACROSS FA TODAY GIVING A CONTINUED CHANCE OF CONVECTION. UNSEASONABLY STRONG SOUTHERN CANADIAN VORTEX WILL DRIVE A COLD FRONT OUT OF THE NORTHERN PLAINS AND INTO THE NRN TN VLY ON WED. WARM AIR IN THE MID LAYERS WILL SPREAD OUT OF THE SRN PLAINS AND INTO THE REGION ON WED...POSSIBLY INHIBITING SRN EXTENT OF CONVECTION. ATTM...WUD INTRODUCE SLGT CHC POPS FOR TNGT AND CHC POPS FOR WED ACROSS THE NRN 2/3 OF MDL TN. AS FOR TEMPS...FWC PD1 TEMPS LOOKS TO WARM BUT IN THE BALLPARK PDS 2 AND 3.
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, 4:32 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 |
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.