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Tornado Warning 162, NWS Nashville, TN

June 14, 1998Cheatham County, Tennessee

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 14, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 1998-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3344 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 1998-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 451 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 7:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBenton61 min
Jun 14, 8:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXHumphreys49 min
Jun 14, 8:46 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXBenton49 min
Jun 14, 8:56 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXDickson, Humphreys34 min
Jun 14, 9:07 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXHumphreys48 min
Jun 14, 9:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXBenton, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys3 hr
Jun 14, 9:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCheatham49 min
Jun 14, 9:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDickson, Humphreys47 min
Jun 14, 10:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDavidson64 min
Jun 14, 10:11 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXDickson, Hickman64 min
Jun 14, 10:15 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXDavidson50 min
Jun 14, 10:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXWilson63 min
Jun 14, 10:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXWilliamson66 min
Jun 14, 10:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXSmith, Trousdale50 min
Jun 14, 11:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXJackson48 min
Jun 14, 11:33 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXPutnam62 min
Jun 14, 11:52 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXWilliamson2 hr
Jun 15, 12:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXWhite62 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.