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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 15, 2012, 5:07 PM CDT for 6 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 38 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
- Mar 15, 2012, 5:07 PM CDT (22:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 15, 2012, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Bedford County, TN, Giles County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Williamson County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:10 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 5:15 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 6 E Spring Hill, TN | TREE BLOWN DOWN ON ASH HILL ROAD |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 2:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 58 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
- 1726 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 820 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
755 WUUS54 KOHX 152207 SVROHX TNC003-055-117-119-149-187-152245- /O.NEW.KOHX.SV.W.0080.120315T2207Z-120315T2245Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 507 PM CDT THU MAR 15 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN RUTHERFORD COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE... SOUTHEASTERN WILLIAMSON COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE... BEDFORD COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE... NORTHERN GILES COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE... MARSHALL COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE... SOUTHERN MAURY COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE... * UNTIL 545 PM CDT * AT 506 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THE STORM WAS NEAR LEWISBURG... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... SHELBYVILLE... 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. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM THURSDAY EVENING FOR CENTRAL TENNESSEE. && LAT...LON 3590 8652 3546 8627 3525 8716 3558 8721 TIME...MOT...LOC 2207Z 244DEG 20KT 3549 8676 $$ SHAMBURGER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 7:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Clay, Macon, Trousdale | 55 min |
| Mar 15, 1:21 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Cumberland, White | 54 min |
| Mar 15, 1:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland, Fentress, Overton, Putnam | 38 min |
| Mar 15, 12:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Williamson | 59 min |
| Mar 15, 12:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Montgomery, Stewart | 66 min |
| Mar 15, 12:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Montgomery, Stewart | 35 min |
| Mar 15, 12:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton, Houston, Humphreys, Stewart | 61 min |
| Mar 15, 1:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Williamson | 55 min |
| Mar 15, 1:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton, Houston, Montgomery, Stewart | 44 min |
| Mar 15, 1:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Williamson | 41 min |
| Mar 15, 2:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Houston, Montgomery, Stewart | 47 min |
| Mar 15, 2:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Williamson | 3 hr |
| Mar 15, 2:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Maury, Williamson | 48 min |
| Mar 15, 2:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Stewart | 43 min |
| Mar 15, 2:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Macon, Robertson, Sumner, Trousdale | 63 min |
| Mar 15, 3:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Robertson, Rutherford, Sumner, Trousdale, Wilson | 26 min |
| Mar 15, 3:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Montgomery, Stewart | 53 min |
| Mar 15, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Hickman, Humphreys | 33 min |
| Mar 15, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Hickman, Williamson | 33 min |
| Mar 15, 4:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Houston, Humphreys | 37 min |
| Mar 15, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Rutherford, Williamson | 26 min |
| Mar 15, 4:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Robertson | 37 min |
| Mar 15, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Overton, Putnam | 23 min |
| Mar 15, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Marshall, Maury, Rutherford, Williamson | 36 min |
| Mar 15, 5:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Fentress, Overton, Pickett | 40 min |
| Mar 15, 5:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Williamson | 3 hr |
| Mar 15, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon, Davidson, Rutherford, Wilson | 44 min |
| Mar 15, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Giles, Marshall, Rutherford | 45 min |
| Mar 15, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence | 35 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.