Alert archive / Tennessee / Special Weather Statements in 2013
Special Weather Statement, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this special weather statement at Aug 23, 2013, 4:03 PM CDT for 12 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 57 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
- Aug 23, 2013, 4:03 PM CDT (21:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2013, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
Counties Cheatham County, TN, Davidson County, TN, Houston County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Macon County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Smith County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Wilson County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:05 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 43 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
- 2024 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 743 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
575
WWUS84 KOHX 232103
SPSOHX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
403 PM CDT FRI AUG 23 2013
TNZ005>010-023-025>032-064-232200-
CHEATHAM-CLAY-DAVIDSON-DE
KALB-DICKSON-HOUSTON-JACKSON-MACON-MONTGOMERY-PUTNAM-ROBERTSON-SMITH-
STEWART-SUMNER-TROUSDALE-WILSON-
403 PM CDT FRI AUG 23 2013
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CHEATHAM...CLAY...DAVIDSON...DE
KALB...DICKSON...HOUSTON...JACKSON...MACON...MONTGOMERY...PUTNAM...
ROBERTSON...SMITH...STEWART...SUMNER...TROUSDALE AND WILSON
COUNTIES...
AT 400 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
TRACKING THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AND NEAR THE TENNESSEE AND KENTUCKY
STATE LINE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTH AT 20 MPH.
SOME OF THE STORMS IN THE NORTHERN PART OF MIDDLE TENNESSE COULD BE
STRONG BETWEEN NOW AND 5 PM CDT...WITH SMALL HAIL AND WINDS UP TO 40
MPH POSSIBLE. BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE POSSIBLE...TOO.
LAT...LON 3663 8576 3659 8565 3605 8568 3626 8782
3663 8792 3666 8635
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 5:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Cumberland | 60 min |
| Aug 23, 5:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | White | 41 min |
| Aug 23, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Marshall, Maury, Williamson | 38 min |
| Aug 23, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Rutherford | 54 min |
| Aug 23, 6:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Van Buren | 48 min |
| Aug 23, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman, Perry | 40 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.