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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Nashville, TN

February 27, 20098 counties in Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 27, 2009, 4:02 AM CST for 8 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 43 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
Feb 27, 2009, 4:02 AM CST (10:02 UTC)
Expired
Feb 27, 2009, 4:45 AM CST
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Cheatham County, TN, Davidson County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Williamson County, TN, Wilson County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:04 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
Feb 27, 3:58 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC119 min

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 18 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 2009-02-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 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 2009-02-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 228 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1251 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
228 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
443 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 Feb 27, 3:56 AM CST, 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 27, 3:56 AM CST, 6 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 26, 5:49 AM CST, 22 hours 13 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED TYPO
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
549 AM CST THU FEB 26 2009

TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-271200-
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-
549 AM CST THU FEB 26 2009

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE TOWARD THE MIDSTATE LATE TONIGHT WITH SCATTERED
TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...MAINLY AFTER MIDNIGHT.
SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL...
MAINLY OVER THE NORTHWEST COUNTIES.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

THE COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE MIDSTATE ON FRIDAY AND BECOME STATIONARY
OVER ALABAMA AND GEORGIA FRIDAY NIGHT. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED FRIDAY...MAINLY OVER THE
NORTH HALF IN THE MORNING AND THE SOUTH HALF IN THE AFTERNOON. SOME
THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL.

AS COLD AIR DIVES INTO THE MIDSTATE ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND
SATURDAY NIGHT...THE POTENTIAL FOR SNOWFALL WILL DEVELOP. SOME SNOW
ACCUMULATION IS POSSIBLE SATURDAY NIGHT.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

DUE TO THE BRIEF AND ISOLATED NATURE OF POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. ALL SPOTTERS SHOULD KEEP
ABREAST OF THE WEATHER FORECAST IN THE EVENT OF CHANGES.

JLM

In the hours before

Local storm report, Feb 27, 3:14 AM CST, 48 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
314 AM CST FRI FEB 27 2009

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

0305 AM     HAIL             DOVER                   36.48N 87.84W
02/27/2009  M1.00 INCH       STEWART            TN   EMERGENCY MNGR

&&

MGIRODO
Special weather statement, Feb 27, 3:29 AM CST, 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
329 AM CST FRI FEB 27 2009

TNZ006>008-022>027-056>061-271130-
MONTGOMERY-ROBERTSON-SUMNER-BENTON-HOUSTON-HUMPHREYS-DICKSON-
CHEATHAM-DAVIDSON-PERRY-HICKMAN-LEWIS-WILLIAMSON-MAURY-MARSHALL-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CLARKSVILLE...SPRINGFIELD...GALLATIN...
CAMDEN...ERIN...WAVERLY...DICKSON...ASHLAND CITY...
KINGSTON SPRINGS...NASHVILLE...LINDEN...LOBELVILLE...
CENTERVILLE...HOHENWALD...FRANKLIN...BRENTWOOD...COLUMBIA...
LEWISBURG
329 AM CST FRI FEB 27 2009

A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IS PUSHING EAST ACROSS NORTHWEST
PORTIONS OF THE MID STATE. SOME WIND GUSTS NEAR 50 MPH HAVE BEEN
REPORTED...AND HAIL UP TO QUARTER SIZE. THIS LINE WILL AFFECT
AREAS INCLUDING DICKSON...WAVERLY AND ASHLAND CITY BY AROUND 4
AM....AND POSSIBLY REACH NASHVILLE BY 430 AM.

GIRODO

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 27, 3:36 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCheatham, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery, Robertson24 min
Feb 27, 8:24 AM CSTAreal Flood AdvisoryOHXDavidson, Williamson3 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 2009Every 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.