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Tornado Warning 162, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Jun 14, 1998, 9:47 PM CDT for Cheatham 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 14, 1998, 9:47 PM CDT (02:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1998, 10:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cheatham 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 14, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 46 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
- 3344 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 936 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 451 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 509 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 11.0
- Supercell composite
- 67.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBNA 150248 RRA TORBNA TNC021-150320- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 947 PM CDT SUN JUN 14 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN CHEATHAM COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE * UNTIL 1020 PM CDT * AT 946 PM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTH OF ASHLAND CITY OR 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF PEGRAM MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... PEGRAM AT 950 PM CDT GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! SW/DM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton | 61 min |
| Jun 14, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Humphreys | 49 min |
| Jun 14, 8:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Benton | 49 min |
| Jun 14, 8:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Dickson, Humphreys | 34 min |
| Jun 14, 9:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Humphreys | 48 min |
| Jun 14, 9:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Benton, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys | 3 hr |
| Jun 14, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham | 49 min |
| Jun 14, 9:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Humphreys | 47 min |
| Jun 14, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson | 64 min |
| Jun 14, 10:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Dickson, Hickman | 64 min |
| Jun 14, 10:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson | 50 min |
| Jun 14, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wilson | 63 min |
| Jun 14, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Williamson | 66 min |
| Jun 14, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Smith, Trousdale | 50 min |
| Jun 14, 11:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Jackson | 48 min |
| Jun 14, 11:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Putnam | 62 min |
| Jun 14, 11:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Williamson | 2 hr |
| Jun 15, 12:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | White | 62 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.