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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Nashville, TN

February 7, 1999Wayne County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 7, 1999, 3:23 AM CST for Wayne County, Tennessee. It was in force for 47 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
Feb 7, 1999, 3:23 AM CST (09:23 UTC)
Expired
Feb 7, 1999, 4:10 AM CST
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Wayne County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 202 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, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 1999-02-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 179 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, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 1999-02-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 189 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
179 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
726 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
189 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
213 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
0.9

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 7, 2:36 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBenton, Decatur34 min
Feb 7, 2:56 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXHumphreys, Perry49 min
Feb 7, 3:23 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDickson, Hickman, Lewis47 min
Feb 7, 3:54 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCheatham, Davidson, Robertson, Williamson46 min
Feb 7, 3:54 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMaury46 min
Feb 7, 4:18 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXSumner, Wilson47 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.