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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Nashville, TN

February 9, 1999Maury County, Williamson County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 9, 1999, 4:18 PM CST for Maury County, Williamson 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 9, 1999, 4:18 PM CST (22:18 UTC)
Expired
Feb 9, 1999, 5:05 PM CST
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Maury County, TN, Williamson County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 67 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 nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 54 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 1999-02-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 161 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 1999-02-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 219 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
161 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-122 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
725 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
219 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
187 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Feb 9, 1:30 PM CST, 2 hours 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 9, 1:30 PM CST, 2 hours 48 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
130 PM CST TUE FEB 9 1999

AVN/ETA COMG INTO LN WITH WHAT NGM HAS BEEN ADVERTISING LAST FEW RUNS
AND ARE IN VRY GUD AGREEMNT THRU PD.  BASD ON CURRNT SFC AND 12Z UPR
AIR DATA...NGM SEEMS TO BE DOING GUD JOB.  WK CDFNT CURRNTLY BNA
VCNTY TO NR MKL WL SAG FURTHR SWRD RMNDR OF TDY REACHG NR CHA-HSV
LN BY 12Z.  WK H5 S/W WL PUSH WL PUSH S-E OF AREA LATE TDY AS WELL.
FRLY STRNG SFC HI MOV N OF AREA WL PUSH BNDRY FURTHR S WED LEAVG
FA IN MORE STBL/DRIER REGIME.  COUPLD WITH WK MD/UPR LVL RDGG...
BLV FA WL SEE LTL IF ANY PCPN ON WED AS BNDRY TO S WASHS AWAY AND
PLAINS SYSTM GETS CRANKD UP.  ATTM...PLAN TO LEAVE POPS OUT OF FCST
TNGT NRN ZNS...AND FA-WIDE WED.

PLAINS SYSTM WL TAKE TM TO DVLP AND WL ADVNCE VRY SLOLY EWRD.  FA
WL LKLY RMN IN UNFAVRBL AREA FOR PRECIP DVLPMNT WED NGT AS WELL WITH
UPR RDG NOT PULLG OUT TIL AFTER 12Z THU.  DEEP MSTR WL RMN IN VCNTY
OF FNT WHICH SHUD REACH MS RVR BY 00Z FRI.  XPCT FA WL BECM MORE
FAVRBL FOR CNVECTN THU AFTN AND NGT.  WUD ANTICIPATE INTRODUCING CHC
POPS BACK INTO FCST FOR THU ATTM.  BLV SKIES WL BE MSTLY CLDY ACRS
PLATEAU THU BUT XPCT TO SEE SVRL BREAKS ELSEWHERE AS TEMPS WRM INTO
70S AND AMS TAKES ON MORE TROPICL-LK TENDENCIES.

FAN/MOS TEMP VRY CLOSE...TOOK BLEND.  07

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 9, 3:06 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMaury49 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.