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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Nashville, TN

February 22, 20124 counties in Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 22, 2012, 5:39 PM CST for 4 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 51 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Feb 22, 2012, 5:39 PM CST (23:39 UTC)
Expired
Feb 22, 2012, 6:30 PM CST
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Cumberland County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN, White County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:41 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Feb 22, 6:24 PM CSTHAIL 0.8812 Ssw Crossville, TN

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 97 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 2012-02-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2012-02-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 217 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2212 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
91 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
217 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
295 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

993 
WUUS54 KOHX 222339
SVROHX
TNC035-175-177-185-230030-
/O.NEW.KOHX.SV.W.0018.120222T2339Z-120223T0030Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
539 PM CST WED FEB 22 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN VAN BUREN COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
  NORTHEASTERN WARREN COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
  SOUTHERN WHITE COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
  SOUTHWESTERN CUMBERLAND COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...

* UNTIL 630 PM CST

* AT 529 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING ONE INCH DIAMETER 
  HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THE STORM WAS JUST 
  NORTH OF  MCMINNVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  SPENCER...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

PLEASE REPORT HAIL...STRONG WINDS OR WIND DAMAGE TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...1 8 7 7 6 3 3 6 7 7 2. DO NOT
STAY OUTDOORS IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.

&&

LAT...LON 3569 8584 3580 8586 3584 8571 3583 8565
      3585 8563 3596 8514 3577 8510
TIME...MOT...LOC 2338Z 253DEG 40KT 3577 8572

$$

FORECASTER:
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 22, 6:36 AM CSTSpecial Weather StatementOHXCheatham, Davidson24 min
Feb 22, 7:14 AM CSTSpecial Weather StatementOHXBedford, Cannon, Clay, Coffee, DeKalb, Jackson and 12 more61 min
Feb 22, 5:27 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementOHXWarren48 min
Feb 22, 5:47 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXCumberland, Van Buren, Warren, White58 min

Nearby

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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.