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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 168, NWS Nashville, TN

July 3, 2005Grundy County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2005, 2:23 PM CDT for Grundy County, Tennessee. It was in force for 52 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: Jul 3, 2005, 2:23 PM CDT (19:23 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2005, 3:15 PM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Grundy County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 114 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: 455 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -109 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1206 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 80 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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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 Jul 3, 9:00 AM CDT, 5 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 9:00 AM CDT, 5 hours 23 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
900 AM CDT SUN JUL 3 2005

.DISCUSSION...
SURFACE ANALYSIS/SOUNDING SHOWS VERY LITTLE HAS CHANGED FROM
YESTERDAY. DEWPOINT GRADIENT FROM NW TO SE WITH HIER DEWPOINTS SE.
SOUNDING AT BNA STILL FAIRLY UNSTABLE...WITH KI OF 35...SHOWALTER
0...LI -3...TT 47...AND CAPE 1434. MAY BE A ROGUE TSTM OR 2 W OF
PLATEAU AGAIN TODAY. MAY HAVE TO UP POPS PLATEAU TO BE MORE IN LINE
WITH MRX.
&&

.OHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NONE.
&&

MAG

Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 3, 5:30 AM CDT, 8 hours 53 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
530 AM CDT SUN JUL 3 2005

TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-041030-
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 SUN JUL 3 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT...
NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...
ALTHOUGH ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST EVERY DAY
FROM MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY, THE PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS
WEATHER IS LOW.

ROSE

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 3, 12:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1253 PM CDT SUN JUL 3 2005

TNZ065-080-031830-
VAN BUREN-WHITE-
1253 PM CDT SUN JUL 3 2005

HEAVY RAIN FROM A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE
TO FALL OVER NORTHERN VAN BUREN COUNTY...AND SOUTHERN WHITE COUNTY
UNTIL ABOUT 130 PM CDT. RAINFALL AMOUNTS COULD TOTAL 2 INCHES ACROSS
CANE CREEK BASIN AND MILLSTONE BRANCH IN NORTHERN VAN BUREN COUNTY.
THIS MUCH RAINFALL IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME MAY CAUSE CREEKS AND
STREAMS TO RISE QUICKLY.

BOYD

Special weather statement, Jul 3, 1:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
101 PM CDT SUN JUL 3 2005

TNZ065-066-080-031830-
CUMBERLAND-VAN BUREN-WHITE-
101 PM CDT SUN JUL 3 2005

A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS
GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL WILL CONTINUE ACROSS VAN BUREN
COUNTY FROM SPENCER...BONE CAVE AREA INTO THE NORTHEAST PART
OF THE COUNTY AROUND THE BLEDSOE STATE FOREST. IN ADDITION...
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES WILL ACCOMPANY THE
STORMS AS THE MOVE SLOWLY TOWARD THE NORTHEAST. MOVE INDOORS
WHEN STORMS APPROACH.

BOYD
01

Special weather statement, Jul 3, 1:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
116 PM CDT SUN JUL 3 2005

TNZ065-066-078-080-031845-
CUMBERLAND-VAN BUREN-WARREN-WHITE-
116 PM CDT SUN JUL 3 2005

A SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORM WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST ACROSS NORTHERN
WARREN COUNTY THROUGH 145 PM CDT. THIS STORM PRODUCED PEA SIZED
HAIL...4 MILES NORTHWEST OF MCMINNVILLE AROUND 1 PM CDT. THE STORM
WILL MOVE INTO THE CAMPAIGN AND ROCK ISLAND AREAS AROUND 130 PM CDT.

BOYD
01

Local storm report, Jul 3, 1:31 PM CDT, 52 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
131 PM CDT SUN JUL 03 2005

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

1245 PM     HAIL             2 NE SPENCER            35.76N 85.43W
07/03/2005  1.50 INCH        VAN BUREN          TN   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

BBOYD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 3, 12:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Van Buren, White	38 min
Jul 3, 12:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Van Buren, White	17 min
Jul 3, 1:10 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Van Buren	65 min
Jul 3, 1:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Van Buren, Warren	47 min
Jul 3, 1:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Coffee, Warren	51 min
Jul 3, 2:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Coffee	44 min
Jul 3, 2:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Warren	32 min
Jul 3, 2:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Coffee	28 min
Jul 3, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Grundy	46 min

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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.