Severe Thunderstorm Warning 118, NWS Nashville, TN

Issued

Jun 26, 2001, 12:42 PM CDT (17:42 UTC)

Expired

Jun 26, 2001, 1:15 PM CDT

In force

33 min

Issued by

NWS Nashville, TN

Area

Whole counties

County Giles County, TN

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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000 
WUUS54 KOHX 261742
SVRBNA
TNC055-261815-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1242 PM CDT TUE JUN 26 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  GILES COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF PULASKI

* UNTIL 115 PM CDT

* AT 1240 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PULASKI...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  PULASKI AT 100 PM CDT

DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL WITH TORRENTIAL RAINFALL ARE EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.

$$

GIRODO
LAT...LON 3511 8728 3498 8713 3523 8679 3539 8698

NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 26, 10:39 AM CDT, 2 hours 3 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1039 AM CDT TUE JUN 26 2001

CURRENTLY...MID CLOUD IS ERODING AWAY...AND MORE SUN IS WARMING THE
GROUND. TEMPS WERE IN THE LOWER AND MIDDLE 70S...COOLER PLATEAU.
WINDS WERE LIGHT OUT OF THE SOUTHEAST. UPPER LOW WAS CENTERED RIGHT
OVER NORTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE. 700MB COLD POOL AXIS FROM SE ILLINOIS
TO SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE.

CONVECTION HAS ALREADY BEGUN IN NORTHWEST ALABAMA...WHERE SUN HAS
BEEN OUT FOR SOME TIME. CONVECTIVE TEMPS AROUND MIDDLE TENNESSEE
ARE 78-79 DEGREES. SHOULD SEE THE START OF THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN
11AM AND NOON. CAPE VALUES ON MORNING BNA SOUNDING AND MODIFIED
AFTERNOON SOUNDING SHOW SIMILAR INSTABILITY AS YESTERDAY IN THE EAST.
CAPE AROUND 1500J/KG AND LIS IN THE -4 TO -5 RANGE. LOOK FOR SMALL
HAIL AND GUSTY DOWNDRAFTS FROM THE INDIVIDUAL STORMS. WIND FIELDS
ALOFT ARE TOO WEAK TO SUPPORT ANY ORGANIZED ACTIVITY.

WILL LIKELY LOWER THE FORECAST HIGHS THE WEST ZONE (MOST OF THE CWA).
MID 80S GOING HERE...AND WITH COLD POOL ALOFT...DYNAMIC COOLING
EFFECTS TO RESULT IN 80 TO 85 ZONE.

UPDATE IN A FEW MINUTES...

.BNA...NONE.

DICKSON 15

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.