Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 254, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 2005, 3:20 PM CDT for Rutherford County, Wilson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 25 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, 3:20 PM CDT (20:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2005, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Rutherford County, TN, Wilson County, TN
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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 14 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KOHX 162021 SVROHX TNC149-189-162045- /O.NEW.KOHX.SV.W.0254.050816T2020Z-050816T2045Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 320 PM CDT TUE AUG 16 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN RUTHERFORD COUNTY IN TENNESSEE WESTERN WILSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 345 PM CDT * AT 318 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 NEAR RURAL HILL...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NASHVILLE...AND MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... RURAL HILL AND 6 MILES NORTH OF SMYRNA BY 330 PM CDT 7 MILES SOUTH OF BELINDA CITY BY 340 PM CDT IN ADDITION TO DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. LAT...LON 3617 8650 3599 8667 3595 8631 3618 8630 $$ 21
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 Aug 16, 2:45 PM CDT, 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 16, 2:45 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 245 PM CDT TUE AUG 16 2005 .DISCUSSION... LATEST ANALYSIS STILL SHOWING LL FRONTAL BOUNDARY HOLDING FROM THE SOUTHERN OH VALLEY DOWN INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS. ALOFT...ONE SHORTWAVE PUSH NORTHEAST OF THE REGION WHILE ANOTHER WEAKER WAVE IS JUST UPSTREAM. AIRMASS QUITE UNSTABLE ACROSS THE MID-STATE AND SCATTERED/NUMEROUS TSTORMS FIRING. SOME QUESTION AS TO MOVEMENT OF FRONTAL BOUNDARY BUT MODELS CONTINUE TO MOVE IT SOUTH OVER THE CWA TONIGHT...WHERE IT SEEMINGLY WILL PLAY OUT THROUGH THURSDAY AFTERNOON OR ABOUT. ALONG WITH WEAK BOUNDARY... BAND OF MODERATE-DEEP MOISTURE AND PRETTY GOOD INSTABILITY AXIS WILL HOLD OVER THE IMMEDIATE VICINITY. UL SUPPORT REMAINS WEAK BUT BITS OF ENERGY COMING DOWN IN WESTERLIES AND DIURNAL CYCLE WILL ALSO HELP DRIVE PLENTY OF CONVECTION...ESPECIALLY IN THE AFTERNOONS. AT THIS POINT...WILL KEEP MODERATE-HIGH CHANCE POPS THROUGH THE PERIOD...DROPPING POPS SOME THURSDAY NIGHT AS AIRMASS DRIES SOME. ANOTHER BAND OF DEEPER MOISTURE EXPECTED DURING THE LATE WEEKEND/ BEGINNING OF THE WORK-WEEK AHEAD OF PRETTY GOOD UL LOW/TROF AXIS. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... NASHVILLE 72 88 71 88 / 50 50 40 50 CLARKSVILLE 70 87 69 87 / 50 40 40 50 CROSSVILLE 68 83 67 82 / 50 50 40 50 && .OHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && 07
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 16, 5:30 AM CDT, 9 hours 50 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 530 AM CDT TUE AUG 16 2005 TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-171030- 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 TUE AUG 16 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... MODERATELY STRONG HEATING...WITH ASSIST FROM OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES... WILL SET THE STAGE FOR SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS TODAY... MAINLY IN THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FEW STORMS COULD PRODUCE STRONG WINDS AND HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER ACTIVATION STATEMENT... BECAUSE OF THE ISOLATED NATURE OF SEVERE WEATHER TODAY...ACTIVATION OF SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS IS NOT LIKELY. GIRODO
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 16, 2:42 PM CDT, 38 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 242 PM CDT TUE AUG 16 2005 TNZ026-027-162015- CHEATHAM-DAVIDSON- 242 PM CDT TUE AUG 16 2005 ...STRONG TO POTENTIALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO MOVE INTO DAVIDSON COUNTY AND EASTERN CHEATHAM COUNTY... A BAND OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED ALONG THE DICKSON AND CHEATHAM COUNTY BORDER AT 240 PM. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE EAST AT 15 MPH AND WILL REACH EASTERN CHEATHAM COUNTY AROUND 250 PM AND THEN THE DAVIDSON COUNTY LINE AROUND 3 PM. HIGH WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE NASHVILLE AREA BETWEEN 310 PM AND 330 PM. STAY TUNED FOR FURTHER UPDATES OR WARNINGS. 21
Special weather statement, Aug 16, 2:54 PM CDT, 26 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 254 PM CDT TUE AUG 16 2005 TNZ095-162015- GILES- 254 PM CDT TUE AUG 16 2005 ...STRONG STORM MOVING TOWARD PULASKI... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS PULASKI BETWEEN 3 PM AND 310 PM. WIND GUSTS TO 35 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE. 21
Special weather statement, Aug 16, 3:00 PM CDT, 20 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 300 PM CDT TUE AUG 16 2005 TNZ059-162030- WILLIAMSON- 300 PM CDT TUE AUG 16 2005 ...STRONG STORM MOVING TOWARD FRANKLIN... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS FRANKLIN BETWEEN 315 PM AND 330 PM. WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE. IN ADDITION...HEAVY RAINFALL AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THIS STORM. 21
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Dickson | 40 min |
| Aug 16, 3:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Williamson | 27 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 |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 2005Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005
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.