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Special Weather Statement, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this special weather statement at Jul 29, 2015, 8:44 AM CDT for Cheatham County, Tennessee. It was in force for 31 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 29, 2015, 8:44 AM CDT (13:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 2015, 9:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
County Cheatham County, TN
The radar
The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:45 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, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 68 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
- 236 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -147 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1119 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>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 28, 6:15 PM CDT, 14 hours 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 6:15 PM CDT, 14 hours 29 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 28, 1:25 PM CDT, 19 hours 19 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 125 PM CDT TUE JUL 28 2015 TNZ005>008-023>028-056>062-075-093>095-291030- STEWART-MONTGOMERY-ROBERTSON-SUMNER-HOUSTON-HUMPHREYS-DICKSON- CHEATHAM-DAVIDSON-WILSON-PERRY-HICKMAN-LEWIS-WILLIAMSON-MAURY- MARSHALL-RUTHERFORD-BEDFORD-WAYNE-LAWRENCE-GILES- 125 PM CDT TUE JUL 28 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A HEAT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL PARTS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE THROUGH THIS EVENING...GENERALLY ALONG AND WEST OF INTERSTATE 65. MAXIMUM HEAT INDEX VALUES IN THE ADVISORY AREA TODAY WILL RANGE FROM 105 TO 108 DEGREES. HOT WEATHER SAFETY WILL BE A TOP PRIORITY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT WILL BRING AN INCREASING CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH THURSDAY. A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD BE STRONG TO BRIEFLY SEVERE. LOCALIZED DAMAGING WIND GUSTS WILL BE THE MAIN CONCERN. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. TNZ009>011-029>034-063>066-077>080-291030- MACON-CLAY-PICKETT-TROUSDALE-SMITH-JACKSON-PUTNAM-OVERTON- FENTRESS-CANNON-DE KALB-WHITE-CUMBERLAND-COFFEE-WARREN-GRUNDY- VAN BUREN- 125 PM CDT TUE JUL 28 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL RISE INTO THE 100 TO 105 RANGE THIS AFTERNOON IN AREAS BETWEEN INTERSTATE 65 AND THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU. CAUTION IS ADVISED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT WILL BRING AN INCREASING CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH THURSDAY. A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD BE STRONG TO BRIEFLY SEVERE. LOCALIZED DAMAGING WIND GUSTS WILL BE THE MAIN CONCERN. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. 19
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 7:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Houston, Stewart | 34 min |
| Jul 28, 7:44 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OHX | Houston, Montgomery, Stewart | 3 hr |
| Jul 28, 8:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Houston | 28 min |
| Jul 28, 8:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Hickman | 46 min |
| Jul 28, 9:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Perry | 24 min |
| Jul 28, 9:58 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OHX | Hickman, Humphreys | 2 hr |
| Jul 29, 3:39 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Giles, Hickman, Houston and 11 more | 15 hr |
| Jul 29, 9:08 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Cheatham, Dickson | 37 min |
| Jul 29, 9:41 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Montgomery | 34 min |
| Jul 29, 10:11 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Maury | 34 min |
| Jul 29, 10:17 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Cheatham | 28 min |
| Jul 29, 10:55 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Marshall | 35 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Tennessee, 2015Every 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.