Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Apr 3, 1998, 1:16 PM CST for Lincoln County, Tennessee. It was in force for 29 min. 2 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 3, 1998, 1:16 PM CST (19:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 1998, 1:45 PM CST
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lincoln County, TN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 1:23 PM CST | Hail 1 | Fayetteville, TN | SKYWARN Spotter reported quarter size hail. |
| Apr 3, 1:25 PM CST | Hail 1 | Kelso, TN | Spotter reported quarter size hail. |
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 3, 1:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 888 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBNA 031916 RRA TORBNA TNC103-032005- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 116 PM CST FRI APR 3 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE TN HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 145 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE ...LINCOLN AT 115 PM SOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTH OF FAYETTEVILLE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. PERSONS IN FAYETTEVILLE... KELSO...AND MULBERRY SHOULD TAKE COVER NOW. 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 SAFETY 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 3, 3:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles | 27 min |
| Apr 3, 12:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Coffee, Franklin, Moore | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 12:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton, Humphreys | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 1:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Benton, Humphreys | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 1:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Stewart | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 1:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Houston | 33 min |
| Apr 3, 1:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Franklin | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 1:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall | 33 min |
| Apr 3, 1:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Dickson, Humphreys | 45 min |
| Apr 3, 1:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Montgomery | 45 min |
| Apr 3, 2:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Grundy, Marion | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 2:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cheatham | 35 min |
| Apr 3, 2:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford | 62 min |
| Apr 3, 2:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Marshall | 62 min |
| Apr 3, 2:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Robertson | 62 min |
| Apr 3, 2:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 2:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 2:46 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Sumner | 64 min |
| Apr 3, 2:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb, Warren | 62 min |
| Apr 3, 3:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Hickman, Williamson | 62 min |
| Apr 3, 3:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Coffee | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 3:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Smith, Trousdale, Wilson | 64 min |
| Apr 3, 3:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson | 61 min |
| Apr 3, 3:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Macon | 64 min |
| Apr 3, 3:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Grundy, Marion, Sequatchie | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 3:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles | 31 min |
| Apr 3, 3:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Maury, Williamson | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 3:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lincoln | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 3:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson, Sumner | 47 min |
| Apr 3, 3:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Clay, Jackson | 31 min |
| Apr 3, 4:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford, Wilson | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 4:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman | 33 min |
| Apr 3, 4:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Coffee | 50 min |
| Apr 3, 4:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Clay, Jackson, Overton, Pickett | 65 min |
| Apr 3, 4:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 4:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb | 33 min |
| Apr 3, 4:34 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford | 51 min |
| Apr 3, 4:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | DeKalb | 35 min |
| Apr 3, 4:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wayne | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 4:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Franklin, Lincoln | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 4:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Maury | 46 min |
| Apr 3, 4:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | White | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 4:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Coffee, Warren | 50 min |
| Apr 3, 4:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Putnam | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 5:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Montgomery | 46 min |
| Apr 3, 5:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Lewis | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 5:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Van Buren, Warren | 50 min |
| Apr 3, 5:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Hickman, Humphreys | 51 min |
| Apr 3, 5:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Marion, Sequatchie | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 5:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Maury | 50 min |
| Apr 3, 5:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | White | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 5:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lincoln, Marshall | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 5:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Williamson | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 5:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Rutherford | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 5:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bledsoe | 51 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.