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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 172, NWS Nashville, TN

April 21, 2006Van Buren County, Warren County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 21, 2006, 2:39 PM CDT for Van Buren County, Warren 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
Apr 21, 2006, 2:39 PM CDT (19:39 UTC)
Expired
Apr 21, 2006, 3:15 PM CDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 101 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2006-04-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2006-04-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 98 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-311 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1339 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
140 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Apr 21, 11:47 AM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 21, 11:47 AM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 21, 9:27 AM CDT, 5 hours 12 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 21, 12:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXPerry, Wayne71 min
Apr 21, 1:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXHickman, Lawrence, Lewis74 min
Apr 21, 1:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXWayne46 min
Apr 21, 2:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMaury46 min
Apr 21, 3:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMarshall, Williamson63 min
Apr 21, 3:19 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXWayne116 min
Apr 21, 3:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCoffee31 min
Apr 21, 3:32 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBedford28 min
Apr 21, 6:04 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXPerry, Wayne56 min
Apr 21, 4:07 PM CDTFlood WatchOHXClay, Coffee, Cumberland, Fentress, Grundy, Jackson and 6 more12 hr
Apr 21, 4:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCumberland29 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006

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.