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Tornado Warning 79, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Apr 16, 1998, 4:20 PM CDT for Smith County, Tennessee. It was in force for 65 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
- Apr 16, 1998, 4:20 PM CDT (21:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 1998, 5:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Smith County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:20 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, 4:50 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Pleasant Shade, TN | County sheriff reported golf ball 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 16, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 59 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.
000 TTAA00 KBNA 162121 RRA TORBNA TNC159-162225- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 420 PM CDT THU APR 16 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SMITH COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE * UNTIL 525 PM CDT * AT 418 PM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 6 MILES NORTH OF LEBANON MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... DIXON S PRINGS AT 435 PM CDT RIDDLETON AT 435 PM CDT MONOVILLE AT 435 PM CDT PLEASANT SHADE AT 440 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, 3:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson | 61 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 |
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.