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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 163, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 23, 2015, 5:08 PM CST for Stewart County, Tennessee. It was in force for 37 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 23, 2015, 5:08 PM CST (23:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 23, 2015, 5:45 PM CST
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Possible
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Stewart County, TN
The radar
The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 23, 4:49 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 596 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Dec 23, 2:33 PM CST, 2 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 23, 2:33 PM CST, 2 hours 35 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 23, 4:55 PM CST, 13 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 455 PM CST WED DEC 23 2015 TNZ005>011-023>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-242300- STEWART-MONTGOMERY-ROBERTSON-SUMNER-MACON-CLAY-PICKETT-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- 455 PM CST WED DEC 23 2015 ...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE UNTIL 11 PM CENTRAL... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT A MODERATE RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MIDDLE TN THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT FOR ALL OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE. DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...LARGE HAIL AND TORNADOES ARE ALL POSSIBLE. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL COULD ALSO RESULT IN ISOLATED FLASH FLOODING IN SOME AREAS. THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS EXPECTED BETWEEN 3PM AND 8PM ALONG AND WEST OF THE I-65 CORRIDOR...AND BETWEEN 8PM AND 12AM EAST OF I-65. SOME OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS POSSIBLE DURING HOURS OF DARKNESS. PLEASE REMAIN WEATHER AWARE AS WE MOVE INTO THE EVENING HOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ON CHRISTMAS DAY INTO CHRISTMAS NIGHT...AND A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY ALSO BE STRONG WITH GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. AN INTENSE COLD FRONT MOVING THROUGH THE MID STATE ON MONDAY INTO MONDAY NIGHT WILL BRING YET ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA...WITH GUSTY WINDS AND LOCALIZED FLOODING POSSIBLE. TOTAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS THROUGH TUESDAY DECEMBER 29 ARE EXPECTED TO REACH 3 TO 6 INCHES ACROSS MIDDLE TENNESSEE. THESE RAINFALL AMOUNTS MAY CAUSE SUBSTANTIAL RISES ON AREA RIVERS AND LAKES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS REQUESTED THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT. SPOTTER THUNDERSTORM REPORTING CRITERIA... TORNADO FUNNEL CLOUD FLOODING HAIL >= 1/2 INCH WINDS > 50 MPH STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TREES OR POWER LINES DOWN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 23, 5:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Perry, Wayne | 23 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 2015Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2015
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.