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Special Weather Statement, NWS Nashville, TN

June 17, 2015Giles County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this special weather statement at Jun 17, 2015, 8:01 PM CDT for Giles County, Tennessee. It was in force for 29 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 17, 2015, 8:01 PM CDT (01:01 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2015, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN

County Giles County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 106 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: 193 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2031 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 41 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 Jun 17, 7:07 PM CDT, 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 17, 7:07 PM CDT, 54 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 17, 12:47 PM CDT, 7 hours 14 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 17, 6:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
655 PM CDT WED JUN 17 2015

TNZ030>032-180030-
PUTNAM TN-SMITH TN-JACKSON TN-
655 PM CDT WED JUN 17 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN PUTNAM...
SOUTHEASTERN SMITH AND JACKSON COUNTIES UNTIL 730 PM CDT...

AT 654 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR
CARTHAGE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CARTHAGE...GAINESBORO...GORDONSVILLE...SOUTH CARTHAGE...WHITLEYVILLE
AND GRANVILLE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 15 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

&&

LAT...LON 3624 8546 3613 8587 3625 8598 3649 8565
TIME...MOT...LOC 2354Z 239DEG 46KT 3624 8583

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Special weather statement, Jun 17, 7:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
700 PM CDT WED JUN 17 2015

TNZ033-034-180045-
OVERTON TN-FENTRESS TN-
700 PM CDT WED JUN 17 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR FENTRESS AND SOUTHEASTERN OVERTON
COUNTIES UNTIL 745 PM CDT...

AT 659 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 12
MILES NORTHEAST OF MONTEREY...OR 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JAMESTOWN...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
JAMESTOWN...ALLARDT...GRIMSLEY AND CRAWFORD.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 15 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

&&

LAT...LON 3637 8473 3635 8473 3635 8474 3634 8474
      3633 8476 3633 8477 3632 8479 3630 8480
      3629 8484 3629 8487 3628 8488 3626 8488
      3617 8516 3629 8524 3654 8483 3639 8469
      3638 8469
TIME...MOT...LOC 2359Z 238DEG 46KT 3628 8511

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Special weather statement, Jun 17, 8:01 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
801 PM CDT WED JUN 17 2015

TNZ060-094-095-180130-
LAWRENCE TN-GILES TN-MAURY TN-
801 PM CDT WED JUN 17 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EAST CENTRAL LAWRENCE...SOUTH
CENTRAL MAURY AND NORTHERN GILES COUNTIES UNTIL 830 PM CDT...

AT 800 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9
MILES NORTHEAST OF LAWRENCEBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
LAWRENCEBURG...PULASKI...ETHRIDGE AND LYNNVILLE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 15 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

&&

LAT...LON 3517 8723 3532 8734 3555 8706 3522 8686
TIME...MOT...LOC 0100Z 239DEG 49KT 3530 8718

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 17, 7:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Fentress	45 min
Jun 17, 8:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Lawrence	38 min
Jun 17, 9:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Maury	47 min
Jun 17, 9:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Grundy	42 min
Jun 18, 1:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Trousdale	28 min
Jun 18, 2:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Overton	37 min
Jun 18, 2:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Putnam	35 min
Jun 18, 3:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Sumner	23 min
Jun 18, 4:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Cumberland	45 min
Jun 18, 5:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Cumberland	37 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Tennessee, 2015 Every special weather statement 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.