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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 378, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 29, 2006, 3:07 PM CDT for Macon County, Trousdale County, Tennessee. It was in force for 38 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 29, 2006, 3:07 PM CDT (20:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 29, 2006, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Macon County, TN, Trousdale County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:07 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 nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 1113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 570 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
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 29, 3:01 PM CDT, 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 29, 3:01 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 29, 2:58 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 258 PM CDT TUE AUG 29 2006 TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-292100- 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- 258 PM CDT TUE AUG 29 2006 ...THUNDERSTORMS RUMBLING THROUGH MIDDLE TENNESSEE... THUNDERSTORMS HAVE INCREASED IN COVERAGE ACROSS MUCH OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE THIS AFTERNOON. SOME OF THE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN...THAT COULD CAUSE DITCHES TO QUICKLY FILL WITH WATER. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO DRIVE WITH CAUTION...AND NOT CROSS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. IN ADDITION TO THE HEAVY DOWNPOURS...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE STRONGER STORMS. BOYD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Clay, Jackson, Overton | 49 min |
| Aug 29, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Fentress | 13 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.