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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 148, NWS Nashville, TN

June 1, 2009Bedford County, Rutherford County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 2009, 5:04 PM CDT for Bedford County, Rutherford County, Tennessee. It was in force for 26 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 1, 2009, 5:04 PM CDT (22:04 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2009, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Bedford County, TN, Rutherford County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:07 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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 52 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: 212 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -333 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1533 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 129 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 Jun 1, 3:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 3:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
335 PM CDT MON JUN 1 2009

.DISCUSSION...
AS UPPER FLOW TURNS FROM NW TO W/SW A WEAK H5 SHORTWAVE MOVES OUT
OF THE ROCKIES INTO THE MIDSTATE BY WED. AS FLOW BECOMES MORE
PERSISTENT FROM THE SOUTH...ENOUGH MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY WILL
ALLOW A SLIGHT CHANCE OF CONVECTION FOR TUE AFTN. AS THE
ASSOCIATED FRONT DRAWS CLOSER TO THE MIDSTATE...PRECIP CHANCES
WILL INCREASE ACCORDINGLY. THE FRONT SHOULD PASS THE AREA WED NGT
WITH PRECIP CHANCES TAPERING OFF THU NGT.

UPPER FLOW TURNS TEMPORARILY TO THE NW AS THE UPPER LEVEL RIDGE
MOVES INTO THE AREA. LITTLE CHANCE OF PRECIP EXPECTED FOR FRI AND
SAT AS A WEAK SFC RIDGE MOVES ACROSS THE AREA.

SLY LOW LEVEL FLOW RETURNS EARLY SUN AS THE UPPER RIDGE FLATTENS
OUT AND MORE UPPER LEVEL IMPULSES BEGIN TO AFFECT THE MIDSTATE. A
SFC LOW MOVES INTO THE PLAINS EARLY SUN WITH A WARM FRONT WELL TO
THE NORTH OF THE AREA OVER THE GREAT LAKES STATES. ENOUGH MOISTURE
AND INSTABILITY WILL MAKE IT BACK INTO THE AREA TO GENERATE A
SLIGHT CHANCE OF CONVECTION FOR SUN AFTN AND BEYOND. &&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
NASHVILLE      63  93  66  87 /  10  20  20  40
CLARKSVILLE    63  92  66  84 /  10  20  30  50
CROSSVILLE     58  87  62  80 /   0  10  20  30
COLUMBIA       63  92  67  87 /  10  20  20  40
LAWRENCEBURG   63  91  67  87 /  10  20  20  40
WAVERLY        64  92  66  85 /  10  20  30  50

&&

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

JLM

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 1, 5:18 AM CDT, 11 hours 46 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
518 AM CDT MON JUN 1 2009

TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-021030-
STEWART-MONTGOMERY-ROBERTSON-SUMNER-MACON-CLAY-PICKETT-BENTON-
HOUSTON-HUMPHREYS-DICKSON-CHEATHAM-DAVIDSON-WILSON-TROUSDALE-
SMITH-JACKSON-PUTNAM-OVERTON-FENTRESS-PERRY-HICKMAN-LEWIS-
WILLIAMSON-MAURY-MARSHALL-RUTHERFORD-CANNON-DEKALB-WHITE-
CUMBERLAND-BEDFORD-COFFEE-WARREN-GRUNDY-VAN BUREN-WAYNE-LAWRENCE-
GILES-
518 AM CDT MON JUN 1 2009

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

07

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 1, 5:03 PM CDT, 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
503 PM CDT MON JUN 01 2009

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0502 PM     HAIL             2 SE COLUMBIA           35.60N 87.02W
06/01/2009  E0.88 INCH       MAURY              TN   PUBLIC

&&

TROUTMAN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 1, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Maury	31 min
Jun 1, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Grundy	23 min
Jun 1, 5:19 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Grundy	86 min
Jun 1, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Maury	33 min
Jun 1, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson, Rutherford, Wilson	13 min
Jun 1, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson, Rutherford	16 min
Jun 1, 6:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cumberland	22 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 2009 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2009

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.