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Special Weather Statement, NWS Nashville, TN

September 5, 20125 counties in Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this special weather statement at Sep 5, 2012, 3:40 PM CDT for 5 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 65 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Sep 5, 2012, 3:40 PM CDT (20:40 UTC)
Expired: Sep 5, 2012, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN

Counties Benton County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Stewart County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 101 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1484 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 486 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 76 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.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Sep 5, 3:35 PM CDT, 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 5, 3:35 PM CDT, 5 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 5, 8:26 AM CDT, 7 hours 14 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
826 AM CDT WED SEP 5 2012

TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-061330-
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-
826 AM CDT WED SEP 5 2012

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

VERY WARM AND HUMID CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON. HEAT
INDICES WILL APPROACH 100 DEGREES WEST OF THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU.
THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON
AND EVENING...WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...

A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION FRIDAY NIGHT INTO
SATURDAY. A LINE OF STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO THE REGION
LATE FRIDAY NIGHT...WITH ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS
POSSIBLE.

.SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION 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, Sep 5, 3:40 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
340 PM CDT WED SEP 5 2012

TNZ005-006-022>025-052145-
BENTON-DICKSON-HOUSTON-HUMPHREYS-MONTGOMERY-STEWART-
340 PM CDT WED SEP 5 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR BENTON...DICKSON...HOUSTON...
HUMPHREYS...MONTGOMERY AND STEWART COUNTIES...

AT 339 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
SOME STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...MAINLY SOUTHWEST OF DOVER...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

SMALL HAIL...AND WINDS 30 TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3634 8728 3633 8729 3632 8726 3618 8716
      3590 8783 3589 8815 3620 8815 3626 8809
      3636 8810 3637 8801 3646 8806 3665 8751

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 5, 4:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Montgomery, Robertson, Sumner, Trousdale	59 min
Sep 5, 4:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Stewart	22 min
Sep 5, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Stewart	47 min
Sep 5, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Robertson, Sumner	44 min
Sep 5, 5:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Davidson, Jackson, Macon, Smith, Sumner, Trousdale and 1 more	63 min
Sep 5, 6:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Clay, Jackson	30 min
Sep 5, 6:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Dickson	25 min
Sep 5, 6:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Benton	60 min
Sep 5, 6:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Davidson, Williamson, Wilson	53 min
Sep 5, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton, Humphreys	35 min
Sep 5, 6:39 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OHX	Wilson	102 min
Sep 5, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton, Humphreys, Perry	48 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.