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Tornado Warning 34, NWS Nashville, TN

April 8, 1998Bedford County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Apr 8, 1998, 7:26 PM CDT for Bedford County, Tennessee. It was in force for 49 min. 3 reports 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: Apr 8, 1998, 7:26 PM CDT (00:26 UTC)
Expired: Apr 8, 1998, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Bedford County, TN

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 8, 7:35 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Southwest Portion, TN	Sheriff's office reported dime size hail.
Apr 8, 7:45 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Shelbyville, TN	Public reported dime size hail.
Apr 8, 7:45 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Countywide, TN	Public reported many trees were blown down around the county.

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
Apr 8, 6:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 70 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: 1032 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1081 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 223 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 297 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.5
Supercell composite: 8.2

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The text

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

853 
WFUS1 KBNA 090027 RRA
TORBNA
TNC003-090115-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
726 PM CDT WED APR 8 1998
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  815 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...BEDFORD COUNTY
 
AT 725 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO IN WESTERN BEDFORD COUNY NEAR
HIGHWAY 64. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST INTO THE SHELBYVILLE AREA.
 
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 8, 7:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Giles	35 min
Apr 8, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wilson	62 min
Apr 8, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford	59 min
Apr 8, 7:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Giles, Lincoln	60 min
Apr 8, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford, Williamson	46 min
Apr 8, 7:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Coffee	68 min
Apr 8, 7:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Moore	33 min
Apr 8, 7:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Coffee	47 min
Apr 8, 7:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Putnam	44 min
Apr 8, 7:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence	40 min
Apr 8, 7:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Franklin	50 min
Apr 8, 8:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Maury	56 min
Apr 8, 8:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Grundy, Warren	47 min
Apr 8, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Clay, Jackson, Overton	62 min
Apr 8, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Marshall	43 min
Apr 8, 8:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Sequatchie, Van Buren	39 min
Apr 8, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	White	48 min
Apr 8, 8:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bledsoe	56 min
Apr 8, 9:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford	57 min
Apr 8, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cannon	47 min
Apr 8, 9:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	DeKalb, Warren	58 min
Apr 8, 9:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	White	36 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.