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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 147, NWS Nashville, TN

June 3, 1999Rutherford County, Williamson County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1999, 2:18 PM CDT for Rutherford County, Williamson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 27 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 3, 1999, 2:18 PM CDT (19:18 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 1999, 2:45 PM CDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Rutherford County, TN, Williamson County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 30 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1999-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1531 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1999-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 56 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
1531 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
689 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
128 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
2.7

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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 3, 2:05 PM CDT, 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 2:05 PM CDT, 13 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
205 PM CDT THU JUN 03 1999

CURRENT...SOME SCATTERED CONVECTION SW PORTIONS WITH TEMPS 85-90 AND
LIGHT WINDS.

FORECAST...IT/S GETTING TO BE THAT TIME OF YEAR WHEN WEAK FEATURES
IN ATMOSPHERE CAN MAKE OR BREAK A FORECAST.  JUICY AIRMASS AND
PROBABLE LEFTOVER SFC BOUNDARIES KICKED OFF ACTIVITY TODAY...AND
NEXT FEW DAYS WILL BE A HEADACHE FOR MORE OF SAME...WEAK IMPULSES IN
UPPER FLOW AIDING AND ABETTING SFC INSTABILITY AND OUTFLOW
BOUNDARIES.  IMPULSES WILL BE RIDING OVER H5 RIDGE W/ TIMING FOR US
BEST TONITE.  BUT...OF COURSE...MODELS (INCREASINGLY OVER LAST RUN)
INSIST ON GREATEST PCPN DURING DAY FRI.  WILL OPT FOR 20-30% POPS
FOR TONITE AND FRI...AND JUST WARM AND MUGGY FRI NITE AND SAT.  ANY
MCS THAT FORMS TO OUR W-NW WILL FOLLOW THICKNESS GRADIENT AND MOVE
TO SE...SO THREAT IS THERE FOR US TONIGHT.  AXIS OF H5 RIDGE STAYS
PUT JUST TO W OF US THRU 48 HOURS SO LITTLE RELIEF IN SIGHT FROM
SUMMER-LIKE WEATHER.

AS FOR TEMPS...GUIDANCE LOOKS FINE TO ME...PRETTY MUCH PERSISTENCE.

BNA  BB  069/089 069/091 231
CSV  BB  062/084 063/085 231

MAG

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 7:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXWhite36 min
Jun 2, 7:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXVan Buren, White47 min
Jun 3, 2:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXGiles30 min
Jun 3, 2:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBedford, Marshall34 min
Jun 3, 4:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXFranklin29 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.