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Snow Advisory 1, NWS Nashville, TN

January 13, 2006Grundy County, Van Buren County, Warren County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this snow advisory at Jan 13, 2006, 3:49 PM CST for Grundy County, Van Buren County, Warren County, Tennessee. It took effect at Jan 13, 2006, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 13, 2006, 3:49 PM CST (21:49 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 13, 2006, 6:00 PM CST
Expired: Jan 14, 2006, 4:13 AM CST
In force: 10 hr
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN

Counties Grundy County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 105 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: 1318 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 268 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 237 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 snow advisory 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 snow advisory went out at Jan 13, 2:27 PM CST, 1 hour 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 13, 2:27 PM CST, 1 hour 22 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 13, 9:47 AM CST, 6 hours 2 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
947 AM CST FRI JAN 13 2006

TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-141130-
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-
947 AM CST FRI JAN 13 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT
A WINTER STORM WATCH HAS BEEN POSTED FOR THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL
CUMBERLAND PLATEAU TONIGHT...WITH SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES
POSSIBLE. ELSEWHERE...ONLY LIGHT SNOW ACCUMULATIONS ARE POSSIBLE
TONIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY
ANOTHER COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH MIDDLE TENNESSEE EARLY NEXT WEEK...
WITH A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. THERE IS A CHANCE OF SNOW SHOWERS
TUESDAY NIGHT. HOWEVER...NO SIGNIFICANT SNOW ACCUMULATIONS ARE
EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT...
ACTIVATION OF SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

MAG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 13, 4:01 AM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	OHX	Bedford, Benton, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee and 33 more	6 hr
Jan 13, 4:38 AM CST	Winter Storm Watch	OHX	Cumberland, Fentress, Overton, Pickett, Putnam, White	24 hr
Jan 13, 2:20 PM CST	Winter Storm Warning	OHX	Cumberland, Fentress, Overton, Pickett, Putnam, White	14 hr

Nearby

Snow Advisories in Tennessee, 2006 Every snow advisory 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.