Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 1998

Tornado Warning 169, NWS Nashville, TN

June 20, 1998Rutherford County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Jun 20, 1998, 7:14 PM CDT for Rutherford County, Tennessee. It was in force for 51 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 20, 1998, 7:14 PM CDT (00:14 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 1998, 8:05 PM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Rutherford County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:14 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 36 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: 1573 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -56 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1215 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 230 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

110 
WFUS1 KBNA 210017 RRA
TORBNA
TNC149-210105-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
714 PM CDT SAT JUN 20 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN RUTHERFORD COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 805 PM CDT

* AT 713 PM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A TORNADO 15 MILES EAST OF DOWNTOWN NASHVILLE OR 14 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF WALTERHILL MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  WALTERHILL AT 745 PM CDT

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

BOYD

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Jun 20, 1:58 PM CDT, 5 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 1:58 PM CDT, 5 hours 16 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
158 PM CDT SAT JUN 20 1998

LN OF SVR WX HAS FORMED ALONG OLD OUTFLOW BNDRY IN ERN AND SRN MID
TN AND IS CURNTLY MOVG THRU FA.

MODELS SHOWING SFC LO AND CDFNT STALLING TO THE W OF FA...ALTHO SFC
BNDRY SHUD REMAIN IN VICINITY OF FA AT LEAST THRU PD 4 BEFORE
DISSIPATING. H5 PROGS SHOW ZONAL FLOW PERSISTING THRU FCST PD.

MAIN THREAT OF PCPN SHUD END TNGT W/ PARTIAL CLRG TMRW AND HOT AND MUGGY
CONDITIONS CONTINUING INTERMINABLY.

W/ AFTN MAX TEMPS NEARING MID 90S AND DEWPOINTS FCST TO REMAIN BETWEEN
65 AND 70 DURG FCST PD...BLV AMS WL REMAIN AT LEAST MARGINALLY UNSTABLE
EVEN W/ MID AND UPR LVLS RELATIVELY DRY. CONVECTION WL THEREFORE REMAIN
PSBL AND SLGT POPS ARE WARRANTED.

BNA 73/94/73/95 3212

08

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 20, 1:42 PM CDT, 5 hours 32 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
142 PM CDT SAT JUN 20 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0135 PM                              TN   WIND DAMAGE
06/20/98   JACKSON                        TREES DOWN ALONG HWY 85 NW
                                          OF GAINESBORO REPORTED BY
                                          SHERIFF

Local storm report, Jun 20, 2:04 PM CDT, 5 hours 10 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TENNESSEE
204 PM CDT SAT JUN 20 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0155 PM    LAWRENCEBURG              TN   .75 INCH HAIL
06/20/98   LAWRENCE                       LAWRENCE COUNTY EMA
                                          REPORTED DIME SIZE HAIL
                                          JUST SOUTH OF
                                          LAWRENCEBURG.

BOYD

Local storm report, Jun 20, 2:04 PM CDT, 5 hours 10 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TENNESSEE
204 PM CDT SAT JUN 20 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0155 PM    LAWRENCEBURG              TN   .75 INCH HAIL
06/20/98   LAWRENCE                       LAWRENCE COUNTY EMA
                                          REPORTED DIME SIZE HAIL
                                          JUST SOUTH OF
                                          LAWRENCEBURG.

BOYD

Local storm report, Jun 20, 2:37 PM CDT, 4 hours 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
237 PM CDT SAT JUN 20 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0159 PM    CENTER HILL LAKE          TN   WIND DAMAGE
06/20/98   DEKALB                         REPORTED BY SHERIFF

Local storm report, Jun 20, 5:13 PM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TENNESSEE
513 PM CDT SAT JUN 20 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0500 PM                              TN   1 INCH HAIL
06/20/98   MAURY                          SPOTTER REPORTED HAIL THE
                                          SIZE OF QUARTERS ALONG
                                          INTERSTATE 65 AT MILE
                                          MARKER 39 IN EASTERN MAURY
                                          COUNTY.

BOYD

Local storm report, Jun 20, 5:13 PM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TENNESSEE
513 PM CDT SAT JUN 20 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0500 PM                              TN   1 INCH HAIL
06/20/98   MAURY                          SPOTTER REPORTED HAIL THE
                                          SIZE OF QUARTERS ALONG
                                          INTERSTATE 65 AT MILE
                                          MARKER 39 IN EASTERN MAURY
                                          COUNTY.

BOYD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 20, 7:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wilson	31 min
Jun 21, 2:13 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Clay, Overton, Pickett	2 hr
Jun 21, 2:13 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Jackson, Macon	2 hr
Jun 21, 6:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Sumner	55 min
Jun 21, 7:30 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Clay, Overton, Pickett	3 hr
Jun 21, 7:30 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Jackson, Macon, Sumner	3 hr
Jun 21, 8:39 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Putnam, Smith, Trousdale, Wilson	3 hr

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Tennessee, 1998 Every tornado warning in 1998 Tornadoes in 1998

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.