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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS Nashville, TN

June 13, 2004Rutherford County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2004, 5:23 PM CDT for Rutherford County, Tennessee. It was in force for 37 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 13, 2004, 5:23 PM CDT (22:23 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2004, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Rutherford County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:23 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.

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 29 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: 1101 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -58 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 888 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 121 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KOHX 132223
SVRBNA
TNC149-132300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
522 PM CDT SUN JUN 13 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  RUTHERFORD COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MURFREESBOOR

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 513 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST OF MURFREESBORO...MOVING EAST
  AT 30 MPH. DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL WILL
  ACCOMPANY THIS STORM.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  MURFREESBORO AROUND 530 PM CDT
  SMYRNA AROUND 535 PM CDT
  WALTERHILL AROUND 540 PM CDT

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE
FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING.

LAT...LON 3602 8658 3577 8657 3573 8624 3599 8624

$$
BOYD

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 13, 9:30 AM CDT, 7 hours 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 9:30 AM CDT, 7 hours 53 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
930 AM CDT SUN JUN 13 2004

.DISCUSSION...
ATMOSPHERE WORKED UP PRETTY GOOD YESTERDAY SO NOT QUITE AS UNSTABLE.
CURRENTLY SOME CONVECTION TO NW AND S MOVING TOWRDS US. WILL KEEP AN
EYE ON. AT LEAST NO OUTFLOW BOUNDARY BARRELLING DOWN AT US LIKE
YESTERDAY.
&&

.BNA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NONE.
&&

MAG

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 13, 5:30 AM CDT, 11 hours 53 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
530 AM CDT SUN JUN 13 2004

TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-141030-
BEDFORD-BENTON-CANNON-CHEATHAM-CLAY-COFFEE-CUMBERLAND-DAVIDSON-
DEKALB-DICKSON-FENTRESS-GILES-GRUNDY-HICKMAN-HOUSTON-HUMPHREYS-
JACKSON-LAWRENCE-LEWIS-MACON-MARSHALL-MAURY-MONTGOMERY-OVERTON-PERRY-
PICKETT-PUTNAM-ROBERTSON-RUTHERFORD-SMITH-STEWART-SUMNER-TROUSDALE-
VAN BUREN-WARREN-WAYNE-WHITE-WILLIAMSON-WILSON-
530 AM CDT SAT JUN 12 2004

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH
EARLY EVENING. IT IS POSSIBLE THAT ISOLATED SEVERE WEATHER MAY OCCUR
WITH THESE STORMS, PRIMARILY IN THE FORM OF DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE
WINDS, ALTHOUGH MOST OF THE ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW
SEVERE CRITERIA.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY
SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED AGAIN
MONDAY AND TUESDAY, WITH A LESSER CHANCE OF CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY
DURING SUBSEQUENT DAYS. ALTHOUGH WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT
FORESEEN, THERE IS THE CHANCE THAT A FEW CELLS MAY DEVELOP INTO
SEVERE STORMS DURING THIS PERIOD, WITH MONDAY AND TUESDAY PROVIDING
THE GREATEST CHANCE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED, ALTHOUGH STORM SPOTTERS AND
EMERGENCY MANAGERS SHOULD MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS ON A DAILY BASIS
IN THE EVENT THAT ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS DEVELOP IN YOUR AREA.

ROSE

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 13, 3:12 PM CDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
312 PM CDT SUN JUN 13 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0255 PM     TSTM WND DMG     CAMDEN                  36.06N 88.10W
06/13/2004                   BENTON             TN   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            WIDESPREAD TREES DOWN...SOME ON TOP OF HOUSES. ALSO
            UNKNOWN DAMAGE OCCURRED TO WAL-MART STORM IN CAMDEN.

&&

STEIGERWALDT

Local storm report, Jun 13, 3:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
325 PM CDT SUN JUN 13 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0320 PM     TSTM WND DMG     WAVERLY                 36.09N 87.79W
06/13/2004                   HUMPHREYS          TN   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TREES AND POWER LINES BLOWN DOWN IN WEST AND SOUTHWEST
            PARTS OF THE COUNTY...REPORTED BY COUNTY SHERIFF.

&&

STEIGERWALDT

Local storm report, Jun 13, 4:37 PM CDT, 46 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
437 PM CDT SUN JUN 13 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0430 PM     TSTM WND DMG     KINGSTON SPRINGS        36.10N 87.10W
06/13/2004                   CHEATHAM           TN   AMATEUR RADIO

            POWER OUTAGES AND 2 INCH LIMBS DOWN

&&

MAG

Local storm report, Jun 13, 4:43 PM CDT, 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
443 PM CDT SUN JUN 13 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0440 PM     TSTM WND DMG     1 N FRANKLIN            35.94N 86.84W
06/13/2004                   WILLIAMSON         TN   AMATEUR RADIO

            MEDIUM SIZED TREES DOWN ALONG FRANKLIN-BRENTWOOD CITY
            LIMITS

&&

MAG

Local storm report, Jun 13, 5:01 PM CDT, 22 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
501 PM CDT SUN JUN 13 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0455 PM     TSTM WND DMG     5 S NASHVILLE           36.10N 86.78W
06/13/2004                   DAVIDSON           TN   EMERGENCY MNGR

            NUMEROUS TREES DOWN SOUTH PORTION COUNTY AND PEA-SIZED
            HAIL DOWNTOWN NASHVILLE

&&

MAG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 7:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lewis	42 min
Jun 12, 7:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles	34 min
Jun 12, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Maury	45 min
Jun 13, 11:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton, Stewart	56 min
Jun 13, 11:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Houston, Humphreys	62 min
Jun 13, 12:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Montgomery	61 min
Jun 13, 12:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton	38 min
Jun 13, 1:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Benton, Humphreys	45 min
Jun 13, 1:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Montgomery, Robertson	61 min
Jun 13, 1:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wayne	46 min
Jun 13, 2:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton	55 min
Jun 13, 2:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence, Wayne	61 min
Jun 13, 2:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Benton	62 min
Jun 13, 3:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Humphreys	59 min
Jun 13, 3:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Houston	63 min
Jun 13, 3:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Perry	45 min
Jun 13, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman, Lewis	45 min
Jun 13, 3:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson	51 min
Jun 13, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman, Maury, Williamson	53 min
Jun 13, 4:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham	48 min
Jun 13, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson	61 min
Jun 13, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Sumner, Wilson	46 min
Jun 13, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Trousdale	60 min
Jun 13, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Sumner, Wilson	43 min
Jun 13, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Rutherford	60 min
Jun 13, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Smith	58 min
Jun 13, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	DeKalb	50 min
Jun 13, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Jackson, Putnam	64 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 2004 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004

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.