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Special Weather Statement, NWS Nashville, TN

July 7, 2015Houston County, Stewart County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this special weather statement at Jul 7, 2015, 3:36 PM CDT for Houston County, Stewart County, Tennessee. It was in force for 39 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: Jul 7, 2015, 3:36 PM CDT (20:36 UTC)
Expired: Jul 7, 2015, 4:15 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN

Counties Houston County, TN, Stewart County, TN

The radar

The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:36 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 115 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: 156 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -88 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1172 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 28 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 Jul 7, 1:19 PM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 1:19 PM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 7, 5:50 AM CDT, 9 hours 46 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
550 AM CDT TUE JUL 7 2015

TNZ005>011-023>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-081030-
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-
550 AM CDT TUE JUL 7 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF MIDDLE
TENNESSEE.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 7, 3:36 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
336 PM CDT TUE JUL 7 2015

TNZ005-023-024-072115-
STEWART TN-HUMPHREYS TN-HOUSTON TN-
336 PM CDT TUE JUL 7 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR HOUSTON...NORTHEASTERN HUMPHREYS
AND SOUTHERN STEWART COUNTIES UNTIL 415 PM CDT...

AT 335 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8
MILES NORTHEAST OF SPRINGVILLE...OR 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PARIS
LANDING STATE PARK...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

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

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
DOVER...ERIN...TENNESSEE RIDGE...CUMBERLAND CITY...HOUSTON COUNTY
AIRPORT AND INDIAN MOUND.

LAT...LON 3657 8763 3619 8756 3617 8792 3622 8795
      3625 8795 3626 8794 3631 8796 3635 8798
      3638 8801
TIME...MOT...LOC 2035Z 252DEG 28KT 3631 8801

SHAMBURGER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 7, 4:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Robertson	39 min
Jul 7, 5:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Sumner	27 min
Jul 7, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Dickson, Hickman, Williamson	29 min
Jul 7, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson, Houston, Humphreys	27 min
Jul 7, 5:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Sumner	30 min
Jul 7, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson	35 min
Jul 7, 5:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Williamson	33 min
Jul 7, 5:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Macon, Trousdale	31 min
Jul 7, 6:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Davidson	35 min
Jul 7, 6:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Trousdale	33 min
Jul 7, 6:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson	31 min
Jul 7, 6:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Clay	30 min
Jul 7, 6:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Wilson	36 min
Jul 7, 6:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Rutherford	50 min
Jul 7, 6:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Smith, Trousdale	32 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.