Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 130, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2008, 4:51 PM CDT for Macon County, Trousdale County, Tennessee. It was in force for 24 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
- Jun 16, 2008, 4:51 PM CDT (21:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2008, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Macon County, TN, Trousdale County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 373 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
- 281 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1208 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jun 16, 2:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 2:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 258 PM CDT MON JUN 16 2008 .DISCUSSION... A FEW CONVECTIVE CELLS HAVE FORMED ALONG THE KY BORDER MOVING TOWARD THE ESE AT 25 MPH. THIS ACTIVITY STILL SEEMS RATHER ISOLATED IN NATURE AND WE ARE APPROACHING MAX HEATING. SOME OF THESE CELLS MAY EVENTUALLY PRODUCE DAMAGING HAIL OR WIND BUT IT WOULD BE ISOLATED AT BEST. WILL GO WITH 20-30 PCT POP FOR THIS EVENING BUT WILL NOT MENTION SEVERE DUE TO THE LOW LIKELIHOOD. ERN US TROUGH DEEPENS OVER THE NEXT 36 HRS BRINGING IN COOL AIR FROM THE MIDWEST. HIGH TEMPS TOMORROW WILL LIKELY BE 77F-81F UNDER MODEST NLY FLOW. NOTICED THAT GFS CONTINUES TO FORM INTENSE MINI-VORTMAXI ON THE BACKSIDE OF THE ERN US TROUGH. THESE FEATURES GENERATE INTENSE PRECIP MAXI. HISTORY HAS SHOWN THAT THESE FEATURES ARE HIT OR MISS AT BEST. THE EASTERN TROUGH GRADUALLY GIVES WAY IN THE LATTER HALF OF THE WEEK WITH THE UPPER RIDGE OVER THE PLAINS EVENTUALLY MOVING INTO THE OHIO AND TENNESSEE VALLEYS BY EARLY NEXT WEEK. TEMPS WILL BE SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL THIS WEEK AND THEN CLIMB ABOVE NORMAL LATE IN THE WEEKEND AND THE FIRST OF NEXT WEEK. I BRING BACK A SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN FOR THE WEEKEND AS MOISTURE/TEMPERATURE RECOVER. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... NASHVILLE 64 81 56 83 / 20 10 10 10 CLARKSVILLE 61 79 54 80 / 20 10 10 10 CROSSVILLE 59 77 52 77 / 30 10 10 10 COLUMBIA 64 83 57 84 / 20 10 10 10 LAWRENCEBURG 64 85 59 84 / 20 10 10 10 WAVERLY 62 80 55 82 / 20 10 10 10 && .OHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && JLM
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.