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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS Nashville, TN

June 2, 2010Wilson County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2010, 6:12 PM CDT for Wilson County, 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
Jun 2, 2010, 6:12 PM CDT (23:12 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 2010, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Wilson County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:15 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 27 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 2010-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1276 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 2010-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 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
1276 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
752 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-17 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 2, 5:12 PM CDT, 1 hour earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 5:12 PM CDT, 1 hour before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
512 PM CDT WED JUN 2 2010

.UPDATE...TO MENTION LATE AFTERNOON TSTMS INVOF BNA

&&

.AVIATION...A LINE OF SCATTERED TO BROKEN CONVECTION IS NOW
ONLY ABOUT 45 MINUTES TO THE NORTHWEST OF FROM BNA...HEADING SOUTHEAST.
WILL AMEND BNA TAF TO MENTION TSTM POTENTIAL BTWN 2230Z AND 0000Z.

&&

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

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 2, 4:48 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
448 PM CDT WED JUN 2 2010

TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-032200-
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-
448 PM CDT WED JUN 2 2010

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE MOVING SOUTHEASTWARD ACROSS NORTHERN
PARTS OF THE MID STATE THROUGH THIS EVENING...AND WILL PRODUCE
LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES. BRIEF WIND GUSTS
BETWEEN 35 AND 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER STORMS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

SCATTERED STRONG STORMS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE PERIOD...MAINLY
IN THE AFTERNOON. THE STRONGER STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
GUSTY WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

REPORTS FROM TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED...IF SEVERE STORMS
DEVELOP AT SOME POINT DURING THE PERIOD.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 2, 5:39 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jun 2, 6:00 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 2, 6:09 PM CDT, 3 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 6:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXRutherford30 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.