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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 152, NWS Nashville, TN

June 27, 2001DeKalb County, Putnam County, Smith County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2001, 6:24 PM CDT for DeKalb County, Putnam County, Smith County, Tennessee. It was in force for 36 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: Jun 27, 2001, 6:24 PM CDT (23:24 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2001, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

Counties DeKalb County, TN, Putnam County, TN, Smith County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:24 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 75 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 272326 CCA
SVRBNA

TNC041-141-159-280000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED TO INCLUDE EASTERN SMITH
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
624 PM CDT WED JUN 27 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN DE KALB COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  EASTERN SMITH COUNTY
  WESTERN PUTNAM COUNTY IN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 618 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BAXTER...OR ABOUT 5 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF SMITHVILLE...MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH.

* TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE BAXTER.

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

$$

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, 3 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 3:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 24 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, 2:20 PM CDT, 4 hours 4 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, 3 hours 13 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, 2 hours 31 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, 2 hours 14 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.

Local storm report, Jun 27, 4:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before

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

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

0430 PM    ANTIOCH                   TN   WIND DAMAGE
06/27/01   DAVIDSON                       SEVERAL TREES DOWN IN
                                          WOODBINE AND ANTIOCH

JDG

Local storm report, Jun 27, 5:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

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

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

0455 PM    GOODLETTSVILLE            TN   .75 INCH HAIL
06/27/01   DAVIDSON                       REPORTED BY TRAINED
                                          SPOTTER

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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, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson	35 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

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