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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 222, NWS Nashville, TN

June 25, 2010Wayne County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2010, 4:32 PM CDT for Wayne County, Tennessee. It was in force for 43 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 25, 2010, 4:32 PM CDT (21:32 UTC)
Expired
Jun 25, 2010, 5:15 PM CDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Wayne County, TN

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 146 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 2010-06-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2198 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 2010-06-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 43 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
2198 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
571 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
95 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 25, 4:07 PM CDT, 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 4:07 PM CDT, 25 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 25, 4:31 AM CDT, 12 hours 1 minute before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
431 AM CDT FRI JUN 25 2010

TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-260945-
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-
431 AM CDT FRI JUN 25 2010

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

A WEAK FRONTAL SYSTEM LIES EAST TO WEST ACROSS THE MIDSTATE. THIS
WILL SERVE AS A FOCAL POINT FOR FORMATION OF CONVECTION TODAY AND
THIS EVENING. WHILE SEVERE STORMS ARE UNLIKELY...SOME STORMS MAY
HAVE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HAIL AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO CLOSELY MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS AND
BE PREPARED TO REPORT ANY DAMAGE OR FLOODING BY THUNDERSTORMS.

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

JLM

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 25, 1:28 PM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jun 25, 2:06 PM CDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
206 PM CDT FRI JUN 25 2010

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0135 PM     TSTM WND DMG     PULASKI                 35.20N 87.03W
06/25/2010                   GILES              TN   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            A TREE WAS BLOWN DOWN AND BLOCKED A ROAD.

&&

SHERRON
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 2:22 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
222 PM CDT FRI JUN 25 2010

TNZ058-060-094-095-252000-
GILES-LAWRENCE-LEWIS-MAURY-
222 PM CDT FRI JUN 25 2010

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR GILES...LAWRENCE...LEWIS AND
MAURY COUNTIES...

AT 216 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF LAWRENCEBURG...MOVING EAST
AT 10 MPH. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER HOHENWALD.

PEOPLE IN NORTHEASTERN LAWRENCE...NORTHWESTERN GILES...SOUTHERN LEWIS
AND SOUTHWESTERN MAURY COUNTIES...SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER
SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS AND BE PREPARED TO
TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER THREATEN.

WINDS 40 TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. TORRENTIAL
DOWNPOURS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL OCCUR.

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Local storm report, Jun 25, 3:55 PM CDT, 37 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
355 PM CDT FRI JUN 25 2010

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0330 PM     TSTM WND DMG     5 NW LAWRENCEBURG       35.30N 87.40W
06/25/2010                   LAWRENCE           TN   EMERGENCY MNGR

            TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN IN THE DEERFIELD COMMUNITY.

&&

SHERRON

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 24, 9:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXLawrence28 min
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, 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.