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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 130, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2010, 5:12 PM CDT for 4 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 33 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
- May 17, 2010, 5:12 PM CDT (22:12 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 2010, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Hickman County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Perry County, TN, Wayne County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:13 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 106 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 467 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 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 May 17, 5:01 PM CDT, 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 17, 5:01 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 17, 5:23 AM CDT, 11 hours 49 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 523 AM CDT MON MAY 17 2010 TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-181200- 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-DE KALB-WHITE- CUMBERLAND-BEDFORD-COFFEE-WARREN-GRUNDY-VAN BUREN-WAYNE-LAWRENCE- GILES- 523 AM CDT MON MAY 17 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT LOW PRESSURE WILL COMBINE WITH LINGERING MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY TO PRODUCE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...MAINLY IN THE AFTERNOON. A FEW STORMS COULD BE BRIEFLY SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... EVEN THOUGH ANY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE BRIEF AND ISOLATED, SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO CLOSELY MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO CALL IN ANYTHING REACHING REPORTING CRITERIA. SPOTTER THUNDERSTORM REPORTING CRITERIA... TORNADO FUNNEL CLOUD FLOODING HAIL >= 1/2 INCH WINDS > 50 MPH (MEASURED) STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TREES OR POWER LINES DOWN 13
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 17, 3:57 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 357 PM CDT MON MAY 17 2010 TNZ026-027-172130- CHEATHAM-DAVIDSON- 357 PM CDT MON MAY 17 2010 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CHEATHAM AND DAVIDSON COUNTIES... AT 354 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTH OF KINGSTON SPRINGS...OR 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ASHLAND CITY...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. WINDS 40 TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. 04
Special weather statement, May 17, 4:54 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 454 PM CDT MON MAY 17 2010 TNZ027-028-059-062-172300- DAVIDSON-RUTHERFORD-WILLIAMSON-WILSON- 454 PM CDT MON MAY 17 2010 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR DAVIDSON...RUTHERFORD... WILLIAMSON AND WILSON COUNTIES... AT 451 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DOWNTOWN NASHVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. HALF INCH SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. BOYD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 10:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Wayne | 2 hr |
| May 17, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence, Lewis, Maury | 36 min |
| May 17, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Perry, Wayne | 39 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 2010Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2010
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.