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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 236, NWS Nashville, TN

August 12, 1999Davidson County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 12, 1999, 5:17 PM CDT for Davidson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 13 min. 1 report 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
Aug 12, 1999, 5:17 PM CDT (22:17 UTC)
Expired
Aug 12, 1999, 5:30 PM CDT
In force
13 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Davidson County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 12, 5:26 PM CDTHail 0.88Goodlettsville, TNSKYWARN Spotter reported nickel 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 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 Aug 12, 1:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 12, 1:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
144 PM CDT THU AUG 12 1999

...CURRENT WEATHER...

1800 UTC SURFACE PLOT SHOWS SURFACE BOUNDARY EXTENDING ACROSS
SOUTHERN KENTUCKY AND INTO THE NORTHERN CUMBERLAND PLATEAU. DEW
POINTS ACROSS THE NASHVILLE COUNTY WARNING AREA ARE STILL BETWEEN
70 AND 75 DEGREES WITH TEMPERATURES CONTINUING TO RISE THROUGH THE
90S TO NEAR 100 IN SOME PLACES.

WSR-88D SHOWS WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING
OVER SOUTHWEST MIDDLE TENNESSEE...WHERE SURFACE HEATING IS THE
GREATEST. EXPECT THIS DEVELOPMENT TO CONTINUE ACROSS THE REMAINDER
OF THE MID STATE AS THE AFTERNOON PROGRESSES.

...MODEL DISCUSSION...

ETA AND NGM ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT REGARDING THE MOVEMENT OF THE
NEXT SURFACE SYSTEM. AVN SEEMS ABOUT 6 HOURS BEHIND...SO WILL FAVOR
AN ETA/NGM BLEND THIS FORECAST.

SURFACE FRONT SHOULD PASS THROUGH NASHVILLE AROUND 0600 UTC SATURDAY
WITH BEST CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TOMORROW AFTERNOON. MODEL TIME
SECTION PLOTS FOR BOTH NASHVILLE AND CROSSVILLE SHOW STRONGEST LIFT
CENTERED BETWEEN 1800 AND 2100 UTC TOMORROW. MIDDLE LEVELS WILL
EXPERIENCE SIGNIFICANT MOISTURE ADVECTION BY THIS TIME.

MOST OF THE PRECIPITATION SHOULD END BY TOMORROW EVENING...AND
NORTHWESTERLY FLOW BEHIND THE FRONT WILL BRING COOLER TEMPERATURES TO
MIDDLE TENNESSEE.

...FORECAST DISCUSSION...

FWC/FAN TEMPERATURES ARE VERY CLOSE THROUGH THE FORECAST PERIOD...
AND IN AGREEMENT WITH VALUES GIVEN BY THE MASSIE/ROSE LOW LEVEL
THICKNESS SCHEME. WILL GO WITH A BLEND OF THE FWC/FAN TEMPERATURES
AND POPS.

BNA BU 075/095 072/090 067 08242
CSV BU 069/090 068/085 062 08243

.BNA...NONE.

08

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 12, 4:40 PM CDT, 37 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
440 PM CDT THU AUG 12 1999

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0240 PM    MCEWEN                    TN   WIND DAMAGE
08/12/99   HUMPHREYS                      SMALL TREES DOWN
                                          NEAR MCEWEN. REPORT BY
                                          HWY DEPT.

0251 PM                              TN   WIND DAMAGE
08/12/99   GILES                          TREES DOWN ALL OVER THE
                                          COUNTY. REPORT BY SHERIFFS
                                          OFFICE.

0426 PM    SANTA FE                  TN   WIND DAMAGE
08/12/99   MAURY                          TREES DOWN NEAR HWY 7. REPORT
                                          BY SHERIFFS OFFICE.

0440 PM   NORTHERN PART              TN   WIND DAMAGE
08/12/99  CHEATHAM                        SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED
                                          TREES DOWN.

END/ORCHANIAN
Local storm report, Aug 12, 4:40 PM CDT, 37 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 12, 2:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXHumphreys52 min
Aug 12, 2:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXGiles42 min
Aug 12, 3:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDickson44 min
Aug 12, 3:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXHumphreys52 min
Aug 12, 3:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBedford37 min
Aug 12, 4:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXFranklin, Moore50 min
Aug 12, 4:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCheatham49 min
Aug 12, 4:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMaury31 min
Aug 12, 4:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXRutherford, Williamson45 min
Aug 12, 4:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCannon39 min
Aug 12, 4:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDavidson32 min
Aug 12, 4:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXRobertson31 min
Aug 12, 4:48 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXRutherford27 min
Aug 12, 4:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXWilson34 min
Aug 12, 5:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXSumner37 min
Aug 12, 5:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXRobertson23 min
Aug 12, 5:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXWilson33 min
Aug 12, 5:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXSumner, Trousdale26 min
Aug 12, 5:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXHickman, Lewis37 min
Aug 12, 5:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXGiles, Lawrence37 min
Aug 12, 6:33 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXLawrence, Lewis117 min
Aug 12, 6:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXHickman, Lewis, Maury34 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.