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Tornado Warning 98, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Apr 16, 1998, 5:46 PM CDT for Jackson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 64 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 16, 1998, 5:46 PM CDT (22:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 1998, 6:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jackson County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:50 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, 6:15 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Gainesboro, TN | Local law enforcement reported several trees were blown down. |
| Apr 16, 6:15 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Gainesboro, TN | Local law enforcement 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 16, 1:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Apr 16, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 87 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.
950 WFUS1 KBNA 162247 RRA TORBNA TNC087-162350- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 546 PM CDT THU APR 16 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... JACKSON COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE * UNTIL 650 PM CDT * AT 545 PM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF GAINSBORO OR 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF DYCUS MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... DYCUS AT 550 PM CDT HAYDENBURG AT 555 PM CDT NORTH SPRINGS AT 555 PM CDT WHITLEYVILLE AT 6 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.