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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Nashville, TN

August 16, 2005Cheatham County, Dickson County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 2005, 2:20 PM CDT for Cheatham County, Dickson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 40 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: Aug 16, 2005, 2:20 PM CDT (19:20 UTC)
Expired: Aug 16, 2005, 3:00 PM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Cheatham County, TN, Dickson County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 61 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: 846 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -73 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 971 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 47 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 161920
SVROHX
TNC021-043-162000-
/O.NEW.KOHX.SV.W.0252.050816T1920Z-050816T2000Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
220 PM CDT TUE AUG 16 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN CHEATHAM COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF ASHLAND CITY
  NORTHERN DICKSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 300 PM CDT

* AT 213 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS
  OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 13 MILES WEST OF ASHLAND CITY...
  AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ASHLAND CITY BY 255 PM CDT

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF
YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO CAUSE SERIOUS
INJURY AND SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO PROPERTY.

LAT...LON 3636 8740 3618 8738 3618 8702 3641 8705

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 16, 3:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Williamson	27 min
Aug 16, 3:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford, Wilson	25 min
Aug 16, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Dickson, Montgomery	32 min
Aug 16, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Williamson	30 min
Aug 16, 3:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Montgomery	36 min
Aug 16, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford	32 min
Aug 16, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Smith, Trousdale, Wilson	31 min
Aug 16, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	DeKalb, Smith	18 min
Aug 16, 6:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Grundy	36 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.