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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 181, NWS Nashville, TN

May 3, 2006Giles County, Maury County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 2006, 2:03 PM CDT for Giles County, Maury County, Tennessee. It was in force for 57 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: May 3, 2006, 2:03 PM CDT (19:03 UTC)
Expired: May 3, 2006, 3:00 PM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Giles County, TN, Maury County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:04 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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 90 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1189 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 108 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 May 3, 10:15 AM CDT, 3 hours 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 3, 10:15 AM CDT, 3 hours 48 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1015 AM CDT WED MAY 3 2006

.DISCUSSION...
SFC FRONT IS SITTING JUST TO THE NW ALONG A LINE FROM NWRN OHIO
SWWD TO NRN AR. THIS FEATURE IS EXPECTED TO MOVE SLOWLY SEWD
TODAY WITH SCT TSTMS ALONG AND SE OF THE FRONT. THE BETTER AIR
SEEMS TO BE FURTHER SOUTH...THUS SELS SLGT RISK AREA IS CENTERED
ALONG A LINE FROM EXTREME SERN TN TO SRN AR.

CURRENT FORECAST IS CALLING FOR 70 PCT CHANCE OF RAIN. I NOTICED
THAT THE LATEST FWC IS SHOWING A 23 PCT CHANCE FOR BNA THIS
AFTERNOON. MORNING SOUNDING IS SHOWING A STRONG INVERSION AT
660MB WITH THE USUAL MORNING SFC INVERSION. ONLY REFLECTORS
CURRENTLY ON RADAR ARE OVER SRN PORTION OF THE MIDSTATE.

WILL LEAVE THE CURRENT FORECAST ALONE FOR NOW...BUT MAY ATTEMPT
LATER ON THE INTRODUCE A POP GRADIENT FROM NW TO SE TO INDICATE
THE BETTER CHANCE OF PRECIP TO THE SE.

&&

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

&&

JLM

Hazardous weather outlook, May 3, 9:20 AM CDT, 4 hours 43 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
920 AM CDT WED MAY 3 2006

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-
920 AM CDT WED MAY 3 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF MIDDLE
TENNESSEE.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT WILL INCREASE THE CHANCE FOR
THUNDERSTORMS LATE TODAY AND TONIGHT. A FEW STRONG STORMS COULD
DEVELOP...ESPECIALLY OVER THE NORTHWEST COUNTIES OF THE MID STATE.
HEAVY DOWNPOURS...HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

UNSETTLED WEATHER WILL AFFECT THE REGION THURSDAY THROUGH
SATURDAY AS A SERIES OF DISTURBANCES INTERACTS WITH A LINGERING
FRONT. A FEW STORMS MAY BE SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WINDS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH
SATURDAY.

BOYD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 2, 7:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Warren	28 min
May 3, 2:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence, Wayne	26 min
May 3, 3:05 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	OHX	Bedford, Benton, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee and 33 more	6 hr
May 3, 3:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles	58 min
May 3, 3:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence	52 min
May 3, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Stewart	34 min
May 3, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Humphreys	31 min
May 3, 6:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Houston, Humphreys	33 min

Nearby

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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.