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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 301, NWS Nashville, TN

September 7, 2009Cumberland County, Fentress County, Overton County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 7, 2009, 12:47 PM CDT for Cumberland County, Fentress County, Overton County, Tennessee. It was in force for 42 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
Sep 7, 2009, 12:47 PM CDT (17:47 UTC)
Expired
Sep 7, 2009, 1:29 PM CDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Cumberland County, TN, Fentress County, TN, Overton County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:47 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, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 137 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 12:00Z on 2009-09-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1841 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2009-09-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 82 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1841 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
673 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.9

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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 Sep 7, 12:37 PM CDT, 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 7, 12:37 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 7, 5:03 AM CDT, 7 hours 44 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
503 AM CDT MON SEP 7 2009

TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-081000-
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-
503 AM CDT MON SEP 7 2009

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO AFFECT MIDDLE
TENNESSEE THROUGH TONIGHT. DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING
WILL ACCOMPANY ALL THE STORMS...AND A FEW STORMS COULD PRODUCE
STRONG WINDS...HAIL...AND LOCALLY VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS.

PATCHY FOG DEVELOPMENT IS AGAIN EXPECTED AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT
ACROSS THE ENTIRE MID STATE.

MOTORIST SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING ON AREA ROADWAYS
AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

DUE TO THE BRIEF AND ISOLATED NATURE OF POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

31/JBW

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 7, 10:50 AM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1050 AM CDT MON SEP 7 2009

TNZ011-032>034-065-066-071700-
PICKETT-PUTNAM-OVERTON-FENTRESS-WHITE-CUMBERLAND-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BYRDSTOWN...COOKEVILLE...LIVINGSTON...
JAMESTOWN...ALLARDT...SPARTA...CROSSVILLE...FAIRFIELD GLADE
1050 AM CDT MON SEP 7 2009

...STRONG STORMS ACROSS FENTRESS AND SOUTHEAST OVERTON COUNTIES...

AT 1045 AM CDT...STRONG STORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN FENTRESS AND OVERTON
COUNTIES...FROM 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF JAMESTOWN TO CRAWFORD IN
OVERTON COUNTY. WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED
WITH THE STRONGER STORMS...ALONG WITH DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING STRIKES. THE STORMS WILL MOVE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

BOYD
Special weather statement, Sep 7, 12:28 PM CDT, 19 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1228 PM CDT MON SEP 7 2009

TNZ032>034-066-071830-
PUTNAM-OVERTON-FENTRESS-CUMBERLAND-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...COOKEVILLE...LIVINGSTON...JAMESTOWN...
ALLARDT...CROSSVILLE...FAIRFIELD GLADE
1228 PM CDT MON SEP 7 2009

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING ALONG NORTH END OF PLATEAU...

AT 1220 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN SOUTHEAST
OVERTON COUNTY FROM NEAR CRAWFORD...SOUTH ALONG STATE ROUTE 164.
THIS STORM WAS PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS AROUND 35 MPH...LOCALLY
HEAVY DOWNPOURS...AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES.
MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO USE CAUSE IN THIS AREA AND WATCH FOR
PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS. IF OUTDOORS...MOVE INDOORS WHEN
THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH. THE STORM WILL BE MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 15
MPH...AND WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHERN FENTRESS COUNTY SHORTLY AND THEN
ACROSS TOWN OF CLARKRANGE.

BOYD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 7, 2:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCumberland44 min
Sep 7, 3:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXGrundy40 min
Sep 7, 4:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBenton, Houston, Humphreys, Stewart19 min
Sep 7, 5:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCannon, DeKalb, Smith, Wilson28 min
Sep 7, 5:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXClay, Overton, Pickett24 min
Sep 7, 5:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDeKalb24 min
Sep 7, 6:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCannon, DeKalb, Warren23 min
Sep 7, 6:44 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXWarren31 min

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.