Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Nashville, TN

Issued

Jun 26, 2001, 1:24 PM CDT (18:24 UTC)

Expired

Jun 26, 2001, 2:00 PM CDT

In force

36 min

Issued by

NWS Nashville, TN

Area

Whole counties

Counties Jackson County, TN, Putnam County, TN

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

000 
WUUS54 KOHX 261824
SVRBNA
TNC041-087-141-177-261900-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN DE KALB COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF SMITHVILLE
  SOUTHERN JACKSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  WESTERN PUTNAM COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  NORTHEASTERN WARREN COUNTY IN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 200 PM CDT

* AT 121 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SMITHVILLE...MOVING NORTH
  AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  5 MILES WEST OF BAXTER AT 150 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 3567 8579 3573 8560 3631 8560 3629 8588

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 45 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

In the hours before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE,TN
120 PM CDT TUE JUN 26 2001

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

0118 PM    LAWRENCEBURG              TN   .75 INCH HAIL
06/26/01   LAWRENCE                       EMA REPORTED DIME SIZE
                                          HAIL AND WINDS ESTIMATED TO
                                          BE 60 MPH.

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.