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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 155, NWS Nashville, TN

June 4, 1999Stewart County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1999, 10:11 PM CDT for Stewart County, Tennessee. It was in force for 64 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 4, 1999, 10:11 PM CDT (03:11 UTC)
Expired
Jun 4, 1999, 11:15 PM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Stewart County, TN

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 4, 9:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 382 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Birmingham, AL at 00:00Z on 1999-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3062 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Birmingham, AL at 00:00Z on 1999-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 5 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
3062 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1126 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
107 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.6
Supercell composite
4.1

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 4, 2:30 PM CDT, 7 hours 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 2:30 PM CDT, 7 hours 41 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 10:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMontgomery, Robertson, Sumner64 min
Jun 4, 11:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBenton, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery, Stewart62 min
Jun 4, 11:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDavidson, Robertson, Sumner62 min
Jun 4, 11:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCheatham62 min
Jun 4, 11:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXWilson52 min
Jun 5, 12:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXRutherford, Williamson34 min
Jun 5, 12:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDavidson28 min
Jun 5, 12:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXHickman, Perry40 min
Jun 5, 12:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDecatur40 min
Jun 5, 12:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMacon, Smith, Trousdale53 min
Jun 5, 12:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXClay, Jackson53 min
Jun 5, 12:36 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMaury39 min
Jun 5, 12:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXRutherford, Williamson, Wilson30 min
Jun 5, 12:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBedford, Marshall54 min
Jun 5, 12:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXLewis54 min
Jun 5, 12:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCannon, DeKalb49 min
Jun 5, 12:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXPutnam49 min
Jun 5, 1:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDecatur, Perry, Wayne54 min
Jun 5, 1:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXGiles, Lawrence54 min
Jun 5, 1:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXWarren, White40 min
Jun 5, 1:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCoffee40 min
Jun 5, 1:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXFranklin, Grundy60 min
Jun 5, 1:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXLincoln, Moore60 min
Jun 5, 1:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXVan Buren60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.