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Tornado Warning 158, NWS Nashville, TN

June 14, 1998Smith County, Trousdale County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Jun 14, 1998, 11:15 AM CDT for Smith County, Trousdale County, Tennessee. It was in force for 20 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 14, 1998, 11:15 AM CDT (16:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 1998, 11:35 AM CDT
In force: 20 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Smith County, TN, Trousdale County, TN

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 14, 11:20 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50	North Portion, TN	Electric company reported trees and power lines down in the northern part of the county in the Dixon springs area and Difficult.

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 14, 10:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 53 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: 6 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -256 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 813 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 254 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 350 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

969 
WFUS1 KBNA 141616 RRA
TORBNA
TNC159-169-141635-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1115 AM CDT SUN JUN 14 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN SMITH COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
  TROUSDALE COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 1135 AM CDT

* AT 1112 AM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A TORNADO NEAR HARTSVILLE... MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  DIXON SPRINGS AT 1122 AM CDT
  RIDDLE TON AT 1125 AM CDT
  PLEASANT SHADE AT 1123 AM CDT
  CORDELL HULL DAM AT 1130 AM CDT

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

The office that day

Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 2:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton	50 min
Jun 14, 2:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Humphreys	64 min
Jun 14, 3:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman	47 min
Jun 14, 3:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Maury	48 min
Jun 14, 4:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Marshall	62 min
Jun 14, 4:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lincoln	48 min
Jun 14, 10:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Macon, Robertson, Sumner	48 min
Jun 14, 10:37 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Sumner	33 min
Jun 14, 10:50 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Macon	35 min
Jun 14, 11:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Trousdale	35 min
Jun 14, 11:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Clay, Jackson	49 min
Jun 14, 11:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Overton, Pickett	48 min
Jun 14, 11:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Putnam	48 min
Jun 14, 12:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	White	33 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.