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Tornado Warning 149, NWS Nashville, TN

June 4, 1998Davidson County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 1998, 6:46 AM CDT for Davidson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 34 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: Jun 4, 1998, 6:46 AM CDT (11:46 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 1998, 7:20 AM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Davidson County, TN

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 4, 7:20 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Inglewood, TN	8 inch diameter wide branch snapped off a tree.

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 nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 17 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: 3034 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1349 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 132 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.5
Supercell composite: 11.3

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The text

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

486 
WFUS1 KBNA 041147 RRA
TORBNA
TNC037-041220-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
646 AM CDT THU JUN 4 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  DAVIDSON COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 720 AM CDT

* AT 646 AM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A TORNADO 9 MILES EAST OF ASHLAND CITY OR 1 MILE SOUTHWEST OF
  GERMANTOWN MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  GERMANTOWN AT 649 AM CDT
  JOELTON AT 650 AM CDT
  WHITES CREEK AT 650 AM CDT
  LICKTON AT 655 AM CDT
  MADISON AT 700 AM CDT
  GOODLETTSVILLE AT 700 AM CDT
  RIVERGATE MALL AT 705 AM CDT
  OLD HICKORY AT 710 AM CDT
  OLD HICKORY LAKE AT 710 AM CDT
  LAKEWOOD AT 710 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 4, 6:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson	35 min
Jun 4, 6:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Williamson	32 min
Jun 4, 6:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Franklin	33 min
Jun 4, 6:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham	33 min
Jun 4, 6:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wilson	49 min
Jun 4, 6:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Robertson, Sumner	49 min
Jun 4, 6:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Williamson	51 min
Jun 4, 9:53 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Davidson, Williamson	3 hr
Jun 4, 10:20 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Rutherford	3 hr
Jun 4, 1:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Franklin, Lincoln	34 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.