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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 374, NWS Nashville, TN

August 10, 2006Fentress County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 2006, 7:03 PM CDT for Fentress County, Tennessee. It was in force for 27 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
Aug 10, 2006, 7:03 PM CDT (00:03 UTC)
Expired
Aug 10, 2006, 7:30 PM CDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Fentress County, TN

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:04 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Aug 10, 4:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 152 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 00:00Z on 2006-08-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 212 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 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 00:00Z on 2006-08-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -91 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
212 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
558 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-110 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.1
Supercell composite
-0.5

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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 Aug 10, 2:33 PM CDT, 4 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 10, 2:33 PM CDT, 4 hours 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
233 PM CDT THU AUG 10 2006

.SHORT TERM...(THROUGH SAT)
CURRENT...CONVECTION HAS FIRED UP OVER SW COUNTIES...MOST LIKELY ASSOCIATED
WITH OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM YESTERDAY. OTHER STORMS OCCURRING TO OUR
N AND NW...ALSO FROM OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES. OVER CWA...WHERE SUNSHINE
HAS HAD MOST INFLUENCE...TEMPS HAVE CLIMBED INTO MID 90S AND HEAT
INDICES OF 100 TO 105 QUITE COMMON.

OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES TO OUR N AND NW MAY BE PLAYERS LATER TONITE...MAINLY
OVER NORTHERN COUNTIES WHERE WILL HAVE A LITTLE HIER POP. MAIN PROBLEM
WILL BE HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG ACCOMPANYING DOWNDRAFT WINDS.

ON FRI...MUCH WELCOME RELIEF FROM HEAT AS APPEARS MAY GET ACTUAL
FROPA...IF GFS IS RIGHT. WILL GO WITH LIKELY POPS...AND THEN LOWER
POPS FOR FRI NITE AND SAT. HAVE ALSO LOWERED TEMPS QUITE A BIT FOR
FRI NITE...AND ESPECIALLY SAT. MID 80S SAT WILL SEEM LIKE A COLD
WAVE.

.LONG TERM...
UPPER RIDGE STARTS BUILDING BACK INTO MID STATE SUN AND BEYOND
WITH WARMING TEMPS AND ONLY LO CHANCE DIURNAL POPS.
&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
NASHVILLE    75  88  68  84 /  40  60  20  10
CLARKSVILLE  73  87  65  84 /  40  60  10  10
CROSSVILLE   70  82  66  78 /  40  60  40  10
&&

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

MAG
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 10, 5:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
500 PM CDT THU AUG 10 2006

TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-111030-
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-
500 PM CDT THU AUG 10 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PARTS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE.

.DAY ONE...LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MIDDLE
TENNESSEE FOR THE REST OF THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE MAIN
THREAT IS STRONG DAMAGING WINDS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

THE PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NECESSARY FOR LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND
TONIGHT.

END/ORCHANIAN

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 10, 4:33 PM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
433 PM CDT THU AUG 10 2006

TNZ008-009-029-102205-
MACON-SUMNER-TROUSDALE-
433 PM CDT THU AUG 10 2006

DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE
OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUST OF 40 TO 45
MPH JUST WEST OF GALLATIN AT 4:25 PM. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING
EAST AT 15 MPH AND SHOULD REACH THE WESTERN PART OF TROUSDALE COUNTY
BY 5:00 PM. EXPECT SHALLOW ROOTED TREES TO BE BLOWN DOWN AND ISOLATED
POWER OUTAGES AS WELL. RAINFALL WILL BE ABOUT 1.5 INCHES IN AN HOUR.
EXPECT PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS. MOTORISTS SHOULD SLOW DOWN AND
USE EXTRA CARE TO AVOID HYDROPLANING.

END/ORCHANIAN
Local storm report, Aug 10, 6:38 PM CDT, 25 minutes before
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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.