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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Nashville, TN

June 10, 2013Giles County, Lawrence County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2013, 6:55 PM CDT for Giles County, Lawrence County, Tennessee. It was in force for 35 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: Jun 10, 2013, 6:55 PM CDT (23:55 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2013, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Giles County, TN, Lawrence County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:58 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.

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 10, 1:56 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 130 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: 439 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 498 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

481 
WUUS54 KOHX 102355
SVROHX
TNC055-099-110030-
/O.NEW.KOHX.SV.W.0087.130610T2355Z-130611T0030Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
655 PM CDT MON JUN 10 2013

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN GILES COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
  LAWRENCE COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...

* UNTIL 730 PM CDT

* AT 651 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS
  OF 60 MPH. THE STORM WAS NEAR LAWRENCEBURG...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25
  MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  LAWRENCEBURG...LEOMA...FIVE POINTS...GOODSPRING AND MINOR HILL...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAIN DAMAGING WINDS 58 MPH OR STRONGER...OR
HAIL ONE INCH OR LARGER. FOR YOUR SAFETY...TAKE SHELTER INSIDE A
STURDY BUILDING NOW.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MONDAY EVENING FOR
CENTRAL TENNESSEE.

&&

LAT...LON 3500 8723 3500 8736 3529 8756 3541 8739
      3509 8697 3499 8714 3499 8722
TIME...MOT...LOC 2355Z 320DEG 23KT 3525 8739

$$

FORECASTER:BOYD

1 follow-up statement

129 
WWUS54 KOHX 110015
SVSOHX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
715 PM CDT MON JUN 10 2013

TNC055-099-110030-
/O.CON.KOHX.SV.W.0087.000000T0000Z-130611T0030Z/
GILES TN-LAWRENCE TN-
715 PM CDT MON JUN 10 2013

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEASTERN
LAWRENCE AND SOUTHWESTERN GILES COUNTIES UNTIL 730 PM CDT...

AT 713 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS
OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LAWRENCEBURG...MOVING 
SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE HAS WEAKENED DURING THE LAST 15 MINUTES.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  LAWRENCEBURG...GOODSPRING...LEOMA...FIVE POINTS AND MINOR HILL.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. TORNADOES CAN
DEVELOP QUICKLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. ALTHOUGH NOT IMMEDIATELY
LIKELY...IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF
SAFETY INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL
INTERIOR ROOM.

&&

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT MONDAY EVENING FOR
CENTRAL TENNESSEE.

LAT...LON 3500 8723 3500 8733 3518 8744 3529 8727
      3513 8702 3509 8697 3499 8715 3499 8722
TIME...MOT...LOC 0014Z 317DEG 19KT 3518 8730

$$

BOYD

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 10, 5:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 5:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
549 PM CDT MON JUN 10 2013

.AVIATION 00Z DISCUSSION...
FRONTAL BOUNDARY TO CROSS THE REMAINDER OF THE MID STATE BY MID TO
LATE EVENING. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED CONVECTION WILL BE POSSIBLE
ALONG AND JUST AHEAD OF THE BOUNDARY. CONVECTION TO TERMINATE AT
CSV BY 03Z. FOLLOWING THIS...SOME PATCHY FOG POSSIBLE CSV BY 12Z WITH
VSBYS AS LOW AS 1SM...1-3SM POSSIBLE FOR CKV AND BNA. PLENTIFUL
SUNSHINE FOR YOUR TUESDAY WITH JUST A FEW CLDS AT THE 4KFT LEVEL.

&&

.PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 440 PM CDT MON JUN 10 2013/

MESOSCALE UPDATE...
RADAR INDICATING THAT THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY EXTENDS FROM
SPRINGFIELD TN SW THROUGH DICKSON COUNTY. LAPS DATA STILL SHOWING
ELEVATED HELICITY VALUES ALONG AND JUST AHEAD OF THE BOUNDARY.
THUS...WILL DELAY CANCELLING ADDITIONAL WATCH AREAS UNTIL FRONTAL
BOUNDARY MOVES EAST OF CURRENT WATCH COUNTIES. WITHIN THE PAST
HOUR...SOME MINOR ROTATION WAS STILL INDICATED OVER OUR WESTERN
COUNTIES. LATEST HRRR STILL REFRAINS FROM ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT
BUT WILL STILL WAIT FOR THE FROPA AND WILL THEN COMMENCE WITH
CANCELLATIONS.

OTHERWISE...INTENSE STORMS OVER THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL PLATEAU
CONTINUES. THOUGH SLIGHTLY WEAKER...APPRECIABLE SHEAR STILL EXISTS
OVER THE CURRENT WATCH AREA.

&&

.OHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NONE.
&&

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 10, 4:43 PM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
443 PM CDT MON JUN 10 2013

TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-111045-
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-
443 PM CDT MON JUN 10 2013

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES INTO THIS EVENING
ACROSS THE SOUTHEASTERN TWO THIRDS OF THE MID STATE. THE SEVERE
WEATHER THREAT INCLUDES LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...WITH
ISOLATED TORNADOES POSSIBLE AS WELL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...

THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW.

.SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT...

REPORTS FROM TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ALWAYS APPRECIATED.

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

Local storm report, Jun 10, 5:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
525 PM CDT MON JUN 10 2013

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

0406 PM     TSTM WND DMG     5 N MANCHESTER          35.54N  86.08W
06/10/2013                   COFFEE             TN   PUBLIC

            TREES DOWN ALONG HWY 53

&&

EVENT NUMBER OHX1300483

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Special weather statement, Jun 10, 5:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
525 PM CDT MON JUN 10 2013

TNZ094-095-102315-
GILES-LAWRENCE-
525 PM CDT MON JUN 10 2013

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR GILES AND LAWRENCE COUNTIES...

AT 523 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAWRENCEBURG...MOVING
EASTSOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH INCLUDE LAWRENCEBURG...ETHRIDGE...LEOMA...
GOODSPRING AND PULASKI.

HALF INCH SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS 40 TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS
STORM.

LAT...LON 3523 8758 3529 8758 3541 8749 3527 8693
      3504 8703

BOYD

Special weather statement, Jun 10, 5:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
535 PM CDT MON JUN 10 2013

TNZ062-102315-
RUTHERFORD-
535 PM CDT MON JUN 10 2013

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR RUTHERFORD COUNTY...

AT 531 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES SOUTH OF NOLENSVILLE...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM HAS CONTINUED TO WEAKEN AND NO
LONGER IS SHOWING ROTATION.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH INCLUDE EAGLEVILLE...ROCKVALE...CHRISTIANA
AND FOSTERVILLE.

WINDS 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3563 8642 3565 8642 3564 8646 3569 8653
      3570 8664 3573 8670 3575 8670 3579 8666
      3580 8661 3583 8663 3584 8660 3587 8661
      3578 8630 3565 8636 3562 8640

BOYD

Special weather statement, Jun 10, 5:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
553 PM CDT MON JUN 10 2013

TNZ094-095-102330-
GILES-LAWRENCE-
553 PM CDT MON JUN 10 2013

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR GILES AND LAWRENCE COUNTIES...

AT 549 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR LAWRENCEBURG...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
SOME WEAK ROTATION EXIST WITHIN THIS STORM AND BEING MONITORED
CLOSELY.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH INCLUDE LEOMA...LAWRENCEBURG...
GOODSPRING...PULASKI AND PROSPECT.

HALF INCH SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS 40 TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS
STORM.

LAT...LON 3499 8705 3516 8739 3531 8730 3519 8683
      3499 8698 3499 8703

BOYD

Special weather statement, Jun 10, 6:02 PM CDT, 53 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
602 PM CDT MON JUN 10 2013

TNZ056-058-093-094-102345-
LAWRENCE-LEWIS-PERRY-WAYNE-
602 PM CDT MON JUN 10 2013

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR LAWRENCE...LEWIS...PERRY AND
WAYNE COUNTIES...

AT 556 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTH OF WAYNESBORO...MOVING SOUTHEAST
AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM HAS EXHIBITED WEAK ROTATION.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH INCLUDE LAWRENCEBURG AND ETHRIDGE.

HALF INCH SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS 40 TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS
STORM.

LAT...LON 3535 8723 3510 8745 3540 8786 3554 8775

BOYD

Special weather statement, Jun 10, 6:36 PM CDT, 19 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
636 PM CDT MON JUN 10 2013

TNZ058-094-095-110015-
GILES-LAWRENCE-LEWIS-
636 PM CDT MON JUN 10 2013

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR GILES...LAWRENCE AND LEWIS
COUNTIES...

AT 633 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES WEST OF SUMMERTOWN...MOVING EASTSOUTHEAST
AT 20 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH INCLUDE HENRYVILLE...SUMMERTOWN...
LAWRENCEBURG AND ETHRIDGE.

HALF INCH SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS 40 TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS
STORM.

LAT...LON 3510 8716 3531 8758 3540 8757 3541 8758
      3552 8753 3545 8729 3544 8729 3544 8723
      3538 8701

BOYD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Macon, Sumner, Trousdale	38 min
Jun 9, 7:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Benton, Houston	47 min
Jun 9, 8:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton, Houston, Humphreys	39 min
Jun 9, 8:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Montgomery	48 min
Jun 10, 1:57 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OHX	Davidson, Macon, Rutherford, Sumner, Trousdale, Wilson	2 hr
Jun 10, 2:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Macon	38 min
Jun 10, 1:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Dickson	37 min
Jun 10, 1:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Robertson	27 min
Jun 10, 1:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Cheatham, Dickson	35 min
Jun 10, 1:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Robertson	23 min
Jun 10, 1:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Williamson	31 min
Jun 10, 2:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Sumner	28 min
Jun 10, 2:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Sumner	33 min
Jun 10, 2:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Williamson	45 min
Jun 10, 2:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson, Rutherford, Williamson	45 min
Jun 10, 2:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Maury, Williamson	35 min
Jun 10, 2:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Sumner, Trousdale, Wilson	31 min
Jun 10, 2:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Macon	48 min
Jun 10, 3:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford, Williamson	28 min
Jun 10, 3:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Smith, Trousdale, Wilson	39 min
Jun 10, 3:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Bedford	44 min
Jun 10, 3:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Rutherford	48 min
Jun 10, 3:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Clay, Jackson, Putnam, Smith	31 min
Jun 10, 3:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	DeKalb, Jackson, Overton, Putnam, White	37 min
Jun 10, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cannon, Coffee, Warren	50 min
Jun 10, 3:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Bedford	49 min
Jun 10, 4:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Grundy	41 min
Jun 10, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cumberland, Fentress, Overton, Putnam, White	48 min
Jun 10, 4:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Rutherford, Williamson	30 min
Jun 10, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence, Wayne	34 min
Jun 10, 5:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Rutherford	41 min
Jun 10, 5:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Giles, Lawrence	50 min
Jun 10, 5:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Rutherford	40 min
Jun 10, 5:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Giles	37 min
Jun 10, 6:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Lawrence	43 min
Jun 10, 6:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Lawrence	39 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.