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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 217, NWS Nashville, TN

June 24, 2010Lawrence County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 2010, 9:00 PM CDT for Lawrence County, Tennessee. It was in force for 28 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 24, 2010, 9:00 PM CDT (02:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 2010, 9:28 PM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Lawrence County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:00 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

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 237 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, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 2010-06-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1931 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, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 2010-06-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -25 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
1931 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1316 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
19 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 24, 6:58 PM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 6:58 PM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 24, 9:06 AM CDT, 11 hours 54 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
906 AM CDT THU JUN 24 2010

TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-251415-
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-
906 AM CDT THU JUN 24 2010

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT WILL CAUSE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TO
DEVELOP. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD BE STRONG...OR VERY BRIEFLY
SEVERE...THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND
FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL OCCUR...AND A FEW STORMS MAY PRODUCE BRIEF
GUSTY WINDS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

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

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 24, 3:37 PM CDT, 5 hours 23 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
337 PM CDT THU JUN 24 2010

TNZ006-007-242130-
MONTGOMERY-ROBERTSON-
337 PM CDT THU JUN 24 2010

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR MONTGOMERY AND ROBERTSON
COUNTIES...

AT 336 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF CLARKSVILLE...MOVING
EAST AT 20 MPH.

THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  GUTHRIE BY 345 PM CDT.

WINDS 40 TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM....ALONG WITH
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS THAT
COULD MAKE DRIVING ON AREA ROADS DIFFICULT. EXERCISE CAUTION WHILE
DRIVING ON AREA ROADWAYS.

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Special weather statement, Jun 24, 4:26 PM CDT, 4 hours 34 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
426 PM CDT THU JUN 24 2010

TNZ005-006-008-010-011-022>034-064-242200-
BENTON-CHEATHAM-CLAY-DAVIDSON-DEKALB-DICKSON-FENTRESS-HOUSTON-
HUMPHREYS-JACKSON-MONTGOMERY-OVERTON-PICKETT-PUTNAM-SMITH-STEWART-
SUMNER-TROUSDALE-WILSON-
426 PM CDT THU JUN 24 2010

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR BENTON...CHEATHAM...CLAY...
DAVIDSON...DEKALB...DICKSON...FENTRESS...HOUSTON...HUMPHREYS...
JACKSON...MONTGOMERY...OVERTON...PICKETT...PUTNAM...SMITH...
STEWART...SUMNER...TROUSDALE AND WILSON COUNTIES...

AT 415 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS
INDICATING AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY...OR GUST FRONT MOVING SOUTH THROUGH
NORTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE. AT 415 PM CDT...THE GUST FRONT EXTENDED
FROM CELINA...TO HARTSVILLE...INTO NORTHERN DAVIDSON COUNTY...JUST
NORTH OF GOODLETTSVILLE...TO ASHLAND CITY...TO NEAR TENNESSEE RIDGE
IN HOUSTON COUNTY. AS THE GUST FRONT PASSES LOOK FOR A SUDDEN SHIFT
IN THE WIND DIRECTION TO THE NORTH...ALONG WITH AN INCREASE IN
SPEED...WITH SOME GUSTS AS HIGH AS 40 MPH POSSIBLE. BEHIND THE GUST
FRONT LOOK FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO MOVE IN FROM THE NORTH. THEY SHOULD
BE BRIEF BUT HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND GUSTY WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED ALONG
WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

BOYD
Local storm report, Jun 24, 5:37 PM CDT, 3 hours 23 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 24, 8:27 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 24, 7:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXHickman, Lewis, Maury33 min
Jun 24, 8:06 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryOHXLewis, Maury3 hr
Jun 25, 1:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXGiles35 min
Jun 25, 3:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXLawrence, Lewis29 min
Jun 25, 3:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXLawrence18 min
Jun 25, 3:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXLewis, Perry, Wayne36 min
Jun 25, 4:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXWayne43 min
Jun 25, 6:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXRutherford37 min
Jun 25, 6:48 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXBenton, Humphreys3 hr

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.