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Tennessee Supercells 

4/16/98

WSR-88D Imagery Received at San Francisco State University, Department of Geosciences, Weather Graphics and Simulation Laboratory 

Page Produced by John Monteverdi

See Steve Babin's comprehensive site on the supercells that produced the Nashville tornadoes.

Animation 

 Moving gif (~204k) showing BREF1 reflectivity from OHX [Nashville WSR-88d] during passage of tornadic supercells over Nashville and Bowling Green).  The animation highlights three supercells in Tennessee and southern Kentucky.

 

OHX VAD 1954-2044 UTC

 

This image shows the vertical wind profile at Nashville at 4 minute intervals roughly encompassing the time of the passage of the second supercell over Nashville.  The profile is almost textbook tornadic.