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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 208, NWS Nashville, TN

June 19, 2010Cumberland County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2010, 4:37 PM CDT for Cumberland County, Tennessee. It was in force for 8 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 19, 2010, 4:37 PM CDT (21:37 UTC)
Expired
Jun 19, 2010, 4:45 PM CDT
In force
8 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Cumberland County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:38 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

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 290 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2010-06-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1143 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2010-06-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 27 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
1143 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
998 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
30 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 19, 3:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 3:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 19, 4:58 AM CDT, 11 hours 39 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
458 AM CDT SAT JUN 19 2010

TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-201000-
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-
458 AM CDT SAT JUN 19 2010

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY OCCUR TODAY AND EARLY TONIGHT.
LOCALIZED DAMAGING WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS
ARE POSSIBLE WITH ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

TEMPERATURES WILL WARM ON SUNDAY AND MONDAY AS HIGH PRESSURE
BUILDS ACROSS THE AREA. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 90S ARE POSSIBLE WEST OF
THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU, WITH WARM NIGHTTIME LOWS IN THE LOWER TO
MIDDLE 70S. A HEAT ADVISORY MAY BE NEEDED... WITH THE POSSIBILITY
OF AFTERNOON HEAT INDEX VALUES REACHING 105...ESPECIALLY IN AREAS
WEST OF INTERSTATE 65.

HOT WEATHER WILL CONTINUE THROUGH LATE WEEK...WITH HIGHS EXPECTED
TO AVERAGE IN THE MID 90S. THUS...HOT WEATHER SAFETY WILL BE IMPORTANT
THROUGHOUT THE WEEK.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

IF THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED
TO PHONE IN REPORTS OF HAIL OR WIND DAMAGE.

SPOTTER THUNDERSTORM REPORTING CRITERIA...
TORNADO
FUNNEL CLOUD
FLOODING
HAIL >= 1/2 INCH
WINDS > 50 MPH (MEASURED)
STRUCTURAL DAMAGE
TREES OR POWER LINES DOWN

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 19, 2:21 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 19, 9:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXFentress, Overton, Pickett29 min
Jun 19, 5:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXGiles, Lawrence25 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.