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Special Weather Statement, NWS Nashville, TN

May 25, 2015Bedford County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this special weather statement at May 25, 2015, 1:49 PM CDT for Bedford County, Tennessee. It was in force for 26 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: May 25, 2015, 1:49 PM CDT (18:49 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2015, 2:15 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN

County Bedford County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 84 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: 4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -199 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1281 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 282 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 309 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 May 25, 10:16 AM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 25, 10:16 AM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 25, 5:02 AM CDT, 8 hours 47 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
502 AM CDT MON MAY 25 2015

TNZ005>011-023>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-261015-
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-
502 AM CDT MON MAY 25 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

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

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR MIDDLE
TENNESSEE ON TUESDAY. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP DURING
THE DAY ON TUESDAY...WITH SOME SEVERE STORMS POSSIBLE. DAMAGING
WINDS AND HAIL MAY BE POSSIBLE WITH STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS.

.SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT...

REPORTS FROM TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED.

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 25, 1:49 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
149 PM CDT MON MAY 25 2015

TNZ075-077-251915-
BEDFORD-COFFEE-
149 PM CDT MON MAY 25 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR BEDFORD AND COFFEE COUNTIES...

AT 145 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR SHELBYVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH INCLUDE RAUS...SHELBYVILLE...WARTRACE...
NORMANDY AND BELL BUCKLE.

SMALL HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3546 8654 3564 8637 3540 8615 3536 8627
      3538 8626 3538 8628 3540 8628 3541 8628
      3536 8633 3536 8636 3534 8637 3535 8639
      3533 8641

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 2:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Coffee	49 min
May 25, 2:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cannon, Coffee	35 min
May 25, 2:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Coffee, Grundy, Warren	31 min
May 25, 4:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Fentress, Overton	41 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.