Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 167, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Jun 20, 1998, 6:54 PM CDT for Davidson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 36 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 20, 1998, 6:54 PM CDT (23:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 1998, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Davidson County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 7:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 85 | Nashville Metro Arpt, TN | 98 mph wind gust was recorded in a thunderstorm at the control tower at Metro Airport. Rotating wall cloud was also observed by tower personnel. |
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 12:00Z, 11.9 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 801 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -115 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1085 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
963 WFUS1 KBNA 202356 RRA TORBNA TNC037-210030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 654 PM CDT SAT JUN 20 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DAVIDSON COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 653 PM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF DOWNTOWN NASHVILLE OR IN THE VICINITY OF NEELYS BEND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... DONELSON AT 655 PM CDT HERMITAGE AT 700 PM CDT TULIP GROVE AT 700 PM CDT J. PERCY PRIEST LAKE AT 705 PM 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 20, 12:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Smith | 50 min |
| Jun 20, 12:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb | 31 min |
| Jun 20, 1:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Putnam | 50 min |
| Jun 20, 1:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Jackson | 47 min |
| Jun 20, 1:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb, Wilson | 63 min |
| Jun 20, 1:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lawrence | 50 min |
| Jun 20, 2:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon, Warren | 52 min |
| Jun 20, 2:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lincoln | 48 min |
| Jun 20, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Maury | 34 min |
| Jun 20, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Marshall, Maury | 48 min |
| Jun 20, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Marshall, Maury | 49 min |
| Jun 20, 5:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Marshall, Maury | 2 hr |
| Jun 20, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Robertson | 47 min |
| Jun 20, 6:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Robertson | 37 min |
| Jun 20, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson | 50 min |
| Jun 20, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Sumner, Wilson | 48 min |
| Jun 20, 6:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Wilson | 37 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.