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Tornado Warning 69, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Apr 16, 1998, 3:09 PM CDT for Davidson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 61 min. 7 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 16, 1998, 3:09 PM CDT (20:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 1998, 4:10 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 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 20:09 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 3:15 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Nashville, TN | Sheriff reported golf ball size hail in west Nashville on Charlotte Pike. |
| Apr 16, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado F3 | Nashville, TN | This Nashville tornado on April 16, 1998 took a very similar path to another F3 tornado that occurred on March 14, 1933, which killed 11 people in Nashville. The tornado touched down at 330 PM one mile west of Charlotte Pike and I-440. A tree fell on an ROTC |
| Apr 16, 3:34 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Nashville, TN | NWS employee reported dime size hail on Delta Queen Drive near Opryland. |
| Apr 16, 3:36 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Madison, TN | Sheriff reported dime size hail. |
| Apr 16, 3:43 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Inglewood, TN | NWS employee reported quarter size hail. |
| Apr 16, 4:20 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Nashville, TN | County sheriff reported nickel size hail in the Green Hills area. |
| Apr 16, 4:20 PM CDT | Tornado F2 | Nashville Metro Arpt, TN | Trees were blown down. There was some damage to homes from fallen trees. This tornado was not as strong as the first. It started between downtown and Nashville International Airport and continued into Wilson 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 16, 10:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 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
- 76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 585 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 180 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
762 WFUS1 KBNA 162010 RRA TORBNA TNC037-162110- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 309 PM CDT THU APR 16 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DAVIDSON COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE * UNTIL 410 PM CDT * AT 307 PM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTH OF ASHLAND CITY MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... WHITES CREEK AT 325 PM CDT MADISON AT 330 PM CDT DOWNTOWN NASHVILLE AT 330 PM CDT GOODLETTSVILLE AT 335 PM CDT RIVERGATE MALL AT 335 PM CDT OLD HICKORY AT 335 PM CDT LAKEWOOD AT 335 PM CDT OLD HICKORY LAKE AT 340 PM CDT GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 4:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Stewart | 32 min |
| Apr 16, 4:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Houston | 34 min |
| Apr 16, 4:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Montgomery | 34 min |
| Apr 16, 5:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Robertson | 48 min |
| Apr 16, 5:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton | 35 min |
| Apr 16, 5:41 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Robertson | 34 min |
| Apr 16, 5:45 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Benton | 35 min |
| Apr 16, 5:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Dickson | 36 min |
| Apr 16, 6:00 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Sumner | 35 min |
| Apr 16, 6:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wilson | 50 min |
| Apr 16, 6:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson | 33 min |
| Apr 16, 6:11 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cheatham | 34 min |
| Apr 16, 6:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Davidson | 2 hr |
| Apr 16, 6:19 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson | 36 min |
| Apr 16, 6:22 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Rutherford, Wilson | 48 min |
| Apr 16, 6:34 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Sumner, Trousdale | 46 min |
| Apr 16, 6:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Smith, Wilson | 51 min |
| Apr 16, 6:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson | 47 min |
| Apr 16, 7:27 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson, Williamson | 48 min |
| Apr 16, 7:39 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | DeKalb, Smith, Wilson | 31 min |
| Apr 16, 7:51 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Rutherford, Williamson | 2 hr |
| Apr 16, 7:51 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Smith, Wilson | 2 hr |
| Apr 16, 8:04 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Davidson | 86 min |
| Apr 16, 8:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb | 34 min |
| Apr 16, 8:12 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson, Rutherford, Williamson | 33 min |
| Apr 16, 8:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Putnam | 33 min |
| Apr 16, 8:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | White | 46 min |
| Apr 16, 8:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wilson | 50 min |
| Apr 16, 8:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Putnam, White | 3 hr |
| Apr 16, 8:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Smith | 47 min |
| Apr 16, 8:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Putnam | 32 min |
| Apr 16, 9:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Stewart | 48 min |
| Apr 16, 9:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Montgomery | 47 min |
| Apr 16, 9:53 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford | 32 min |
| Apr 16, 10:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon, Coffee, Rutherford | 47 min |
| Apr 16, 10:18 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Montgomery | 32 min |
| Apr 16, 10:22 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Robertson | 48 min |
| Apr 16, 10:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton, Decatur | 47 min |
| Apr 16, 10:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Humphreys | 47 min |
| Apr 16, 10:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Van Buren, Warren | 33 min |
| Apr 16, 11:05 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Sumner | 40 min |
| Apr 16, 11:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Hickman | 59 min |
| Apr 16, 11:31 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Hickman | 49 min |
| Apr 16, 11:38 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Sumner | 17 min |
| Apr 16, 11:42 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Macon | 48 min |
| Apr 16, 11:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Williamson | 75 min |
| Apr 16, 11:51 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Williamson | 49 min |
| Apr 16, 12:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson | 63 min |
| Apr 16, 12:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson, Rutherford, Williamson | 50 min |
| Apr 16, 12:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Davidson, Williamson | 2 hr |
| Apr 16, 1:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Wilson | 44 min |
| Apr 16, 1:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cannon | 31 min |
| Apr 16, 1:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Rutherford | 19 min |
| Apr 16, 1:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb | 61 min |
| Apr 16, 1:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton, Decatur | 44 min |
| Apr 16, 1:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | DeKalb | 32 min |
| Apr 16, 1:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Humphreys | 63 min |
| Apr 16, 2:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson | 61 min |
| Apr 16, 2:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Decatur | 46 min |
| Apr 16, 2:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Perry | 51 min |
| Apr 16, 2:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Humphreys | 35 min |
| Apr 16, 2:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Dickson | 50 min |
| Apr 16, 2:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Hickman | 46 min |
| Apr 16, 2:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cheatham | 48 min |
| Apr 16, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Humphreys | 48 min |
| Apr 16, 3:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Decatur, Perry | 50 min |
| Apr 16, 3:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Perry | 51 min |
| Apr 16, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton | 46 min |
| Apr 16, 3:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Sumner, Wilson | 63 min |
| Apr 16, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Montgomery | 64 min |
| Apr 16, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Williamson | 46 min |
| Apr 16, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wayne | 46 min |
| Apr 16, 3:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Hickman | 65 min |
| Apr 16, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Dickson | 50 min |
| Apr 16, 3:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Williamson | 47 min |
| Apr 16, 3:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Trousdale | 62 min |
| Apr 16, 4:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson | 46 min |
| Apr 16, 4:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cheatham | 32 min |
| Apr 16, 4:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Decatur | 50 min |
| Apr 16, 4:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Smith | 65 min |
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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.