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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 148, NWS Nashville, TN

June 27, 2001Davidson County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2001, 4:10 PM CDT for Davidson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 35 min. 2 reports 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: Jun 27, 2001, 4:10 PM CDT (21:10 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2001, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 35 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 21:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 27, 4:30 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Antioch, TN	Several trees down in Antioch and Woodbine.
Jun 27, 4:55 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Goodlettsville, TN	Spotter reported dime 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 nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 17 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 430 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -120 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1028 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KOHX 272111
SVRBNA

TNC037-272145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
410 PM CDT WED JUN 27 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  DAVIDSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF NASHVILLE

* UNTIL 445 PM CDT

* AT 409 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER BERRY HILL...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
  NASHVILLE...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BERRY HILL AT 415 PM CDT
  NASHVILLE BY 425 PM CDT
  GOODLETTSVILLE BY 445 PM CDT

$$
15
LAT...LON 3607 8687 3602 8660 3629 8660 3635 8678
          3628 8694

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 27, 3:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 3:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
300 PM CDT WED JUN 27 2001

TSTMS MOST NUMEROUS THIS AFTERNOON IN OUR NWRN COUNTIES, INVOF
UPPER LOW AND HIGH CAPE VALUES, AND OVER CUMBERLAND PLATEAU, WHERE
A SECOND CAPE MAXIMA EXISTS.

ALL MODELS SHOW UPPER LOW CONTINUING ITS WESTWARD TREK NEXT SEVERAL
DAYS, ENDING UP IN SOUTH-CENTRAL MO BY FRIDAY MORNING. EXPECT
A MAJORITY OF TSTMS TO REMAIN IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO THE LOW. HOWEVER,
BLV A BAND OF HIGH 700-500MB RH, WHICH SWINGS NEWD ACROSS MIDDLE
TN THURSDAY, WILL PROVIDE A JUICY ATMOSPHERE, ONCE AGAIN CONDUCIVE
FOR SCTD AFTERNOON TSTMS. THUS, WILL PROBABLY BUMP POPS UP TO NEAR
50% FOR THURSDAY BUT TREND MORE TOWARD CLIMO ON FRIDAY.

BNA BB 064/083 067/086 068 19252
CSV BB 060/082 063/083 065 19252

.BNA...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 27, 12:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE,TN
1230 PM CDT WED JUN 27 2001

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

0400 PM    BEAVER HILL               TN   WIND DAMAGE
06/26/01   OVERTON                        LARGE TREE DOWN

0530 PM    5SW BYRDSTOWN             TN   WIND DAMAGE
06/26/01   PICKETT                        TREES AND LARGE LIMBS
                                          DOWN IN OAK GROVE

0545 PM    4 NE BYRDSTOWN            TN   WIND DAMAGE
06/26/01   PICKETT                        FEW TREES AND POWER
                                          LINES DOWN IN RED HILL

0545 PM    LONEWOOD                  TN   .75 INCH HAIL
06/26/01   VAN BUREN

0550 PM    3 S MONTEREY              TN   .75 INCH HAIL
06/26/01   PUTNAM

0555 PM    2 E ALGOOD                yTN   TREES DOWN BETWEEN
06/26/01   PUTNAM                         BROTHERTON AND
                                          PARRAGON

JDG

Local storm report, Jun 27, 2:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE,TN
220 PM CDT WED JUN 27 2001

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

0215 PM    GREENWOOD                 TN   60 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
06/27/01   JACKSON                        SHERIFF'S OFFICE REPORTED
                                          TREES DOWN.

JAO

Local storm report, Jun 27, 3:11 PM CDT, 59 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE,TN
311 PM CDT WED JUN 27 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....
I
0255 PM    6 SSE ERIN                TN   .75 INCH HAIL
06/27/01   HOUSTON                        SHERIFF'S OFFICE REPORTED
                                          DIME SIZE HAIL.

JAO

Local storm report, Jun 27, 3:53 PM CDT, 17 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE,TN
353 PM CDT WED JUN 27 2001

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

0341 PM    WOODLAWN                  TN   70 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
06/27/01   MONTGOMERY                     911 CENTER REPORTED A TREE
                                          DOWN IN WOODLAWN AND NORTH
                                          CLARKSVILLE.

Local storm report, Jun 27, 4:10 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE,TN
410 PM CDT WED JUN 27 2001

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

0405 PM    HERMITAGE                 TN   .75 INCH HAIL
06/27/01   DAVIDSON                       SPOTTER REPORTED DIME SIZE
                                          HAIL. ALSO, PUBLIC REPORTED
                                          NICKEL SIZE HAIL IN
                                          SOUTHWEST DAVIDSON COUNTY.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 12:46 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	White	119 min
Jun 27, 1:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Jackson, Putnam	28 min
Jun 27, 2:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Clay, Jackson	25 min
Jun 27, 2:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Houston, Humphreys	51 min
Jun 27, 2:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Montgomery, Stewart	38 min
Jun 27, 3:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Montgomery	29 min
Jun 27, 4:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson	27 min
Jun 27, 4:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wilson	30 min
Jun 27, 4:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford, Wilson	29 min
Jun 27, 4:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham	23 min
Jun 27, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Robertson	32 min
Jun 27, 5:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Smith	27 min
Jun 27, 6:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	DeKalb, Putnam, Smith	36 min

Nearby

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

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.