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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 306, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 2010, 6:54 PM CDT for Giles County, Lawrence County, Tennessee. It was in force for 66 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
- Aug 13, 2010, 6:54 PM CDT (23:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2010, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Giles County, TN, Lawrence County, TN
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 229 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2135 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 766 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Aug 13, 6:39 PM CDT, 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 13, 6:39 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 447 AM CDT FRI AUG 13 2010 TNZ005>010-022>031-056>064-075-077-093>095-141030- STEWART-MONTGOMERY-ROBERTSON-SUMNER-MACON-CLAY-BENTON-HOUSTON- HUMPHREYS-DICKSON-CHEATHAM-DAVIDSON-WILSON-TROUSDALE-SMITH- JACKSON-PERRY-HICKMAN-LEWIS-WILLIAMSON-MAURY-MARSHALL-RUTHERFORD- CANNON-DE KALB-BEDFORD-COFFEE-WAYNE-LAWRENCE-GILES- 447 AM CDT FRI AUG 13 2010 ...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT SATURDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WIND GUSTS 40-50 MPH AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL OCCUR WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. THE HEAT ADVISORY WILL CONTINUE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY A HEAT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT SATURDAY FOR MOST OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE. SOME RELIEF FROM THE HEAT WILL OCCUR NEXT WEEK...BUT TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN ABOVE NORMAL. TNZ011-032>034-065-066-078>080-141030- PICKETT-PUTNAM-OVERTON-FENTRESS-WHITE-CUMBERLAND-WARREN-GRUNDY- VAN BUREN- 447 AM CDT FRI AUG 13 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WIND GUSTS 40-50 MPH AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL OCCUR WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. 07
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 13, 6:18 PM CDT, 36 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman, Lewis, Maury | 54 min |
| Aug 13, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Coffee, Warren | 55 min |
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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.