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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 225, NWS Nashville, TN

June 26, 20104 counties in Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2010, 6:32 PM CDT for 4 counties in 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 26, 2010, 6:32 PM CDT (23:32 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 2010, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
28 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 23:32 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

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 224 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 12:00Z on 2010-06-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2093 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 12:00Z on 2010-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 5 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
2093 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1017 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-18 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 26, 2:07 PM CDT, 4 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 2:07 PM CDT, 4 hours 25 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 26, 9:34 AM CDT, 8 hours 58 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
934 AM CDT SAT JUN 26 2010

TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-271445-
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-
934 AM CDT SAT JUN 26 2010

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

HOT AND HUMID WEATHER...ALONG WITH WEAK SURFACE BOUNDARIES...WILL
HELP PRODUCE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD BE
STRONG TO BRIEFLY SEVERE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE MAIN SEVERE
HAZARD WILL BE LOCALIZED DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. OTHERWISE...THE
SLOW MOVING STORMS WILL CONTAIN HEAVY RAINFALL AND FREQUENT
LIGHTNING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

STRONG AND ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AGAIN
SUNDAY AND MONDAY. WARM AND HUMID AIR WILL BE OVER THE
REGION...AND A COLD WILL BE APPROACHING.

.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 26, 12:45 PM CDT, 5 hours 47 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1245 PM CDT SAT JUN 26 2010

TNZ027-059-261830-
DAVIDSON-WILLIAMSON-
1245 PM CDT SAT JUN 26 2010

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR DAVIDSON AND WILLIAMSON
COUNTIES...

AT 1238 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR BELLE MEADE...OR 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
DOWNTOWN NASHVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

WINDS AROUND 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

BOYD
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 2:16 PM CDT, 4 hours 16 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
216 PM CDT SAT JUN 26 2010

TNZ027>030-059-061>064-075-262015-
BEDFORD-CANNON-DAVIDSON-DEKALB-MARSHALL-RUTHERFORD-SMITH-TROUSDALE-
WILLIAMSON-WILSON-
216 PM CDT SAT JUN 26 2010

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR BEDFORD...CANNON...DAVIDSON...
DEKALB...MARSHALL...RUTHERFORD...SMITH...TROUSDALE...WILLIAMSON AND
WILSON COUNTIES...

AT 213 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
SEVERAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS WILSON...RUTHERFORD...SMITH AND
EASTERN WILLIAMSON. IN ADDITION TO GUSTY WINDS...A FEW STORMS WILL PRODUCE
LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS WITH RAINFALL AMOUNTS UP TO AN INCH IN A
HALF HOUR. STORM MOVEMENT SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

WINDS 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS.

BOYD
Local storm report, Jun 26, 2:29 PM CDT, 4 hours 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
229 PM CDT SAT JUN 26 2010

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

0125 PM     TSTM WND DMG     SMYRNA                  35.98N 86.52W
06/26/2010                   RUTHERFORD         TN   PUBLIC

            TREES AND POWER LINES REPORTED DOWN IN THE SMYRNA AREA.
            REPORT RELAYED BY LOCAL TV STATION METEOROLOGIST WKRN.

&&

BBOYD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 1:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDavidson, Rutherford, Williamson55 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.