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Special Weather Statement, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this special weather statement at Oct 12, 2015, 5:45 PM CDT for Stewart County, Tennessee. It was in force for 30 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
- Oct 12, 2015, 5:45 PM CDT (22:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 12, 2015, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
County Stewart County, TN
The radar
The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 1763 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 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 Oct 12, 5:10 PM CDT, 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 12, 5:10 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 510 PM CDT MON OCT 12 2015 .UPDATE... UPDATED SUTIE OF FORECAST PRODUCTS AGAIN WITH CONVECTION NOW DEVELOPING TO THE W OF STEWART CO AND MOVING EWD TO RAISE POPS ACROSS FAR NW PORTIONS OF MID STATE ACCORDINGLY. && .PREV DISCUSSION... UPDATE... FOR TIMING PURPOSES OF MOST SHWR/TSTM ACTIVITY ARRIVING AFTER 13/00Z...HAVE UPDATED THE SUITE OF FORECAST PRODUCTS TO ADD A LATE THIS AFTERNOON ZONE GROUPING TO THE ZONE FORECAST PRODUCT. && 31
Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 12, 5:03 AM CDT, 12 hours 42 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 503 AM CDT MON OCT 12 2015 TNZ005>011-023>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-131015- 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- 503 AM CDT MON OCT 12 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT CHANCES FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE IN LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE MID STATE. SOME STRONGER STORMS MAY DEVELOP AND COULD PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE OUT OF THE AREA JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 12, 5:45 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
545 PM CDT MON OCT 12 2015
TNZ005-006-122315-
MONTGOMERY TN-STEWART TN-
545 PM CDT MON OCT 12 2015
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR STEWART AND NORTHWESTERN
MONTGOMERY COUNTIES UNTIL 615 PM CDT...
AT 544 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES EAST OF CADIZ TO 10
MILES WEST OF PARIS LANDING STATE PARK...AND MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.
DIME SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THESE STORMS.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
DOVER...CLARKSVILLE...BIG ROCK...INDIAN MOUND AND LAND BETWEEN THE
LAKES.
THESE STORMS MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
LAT...LON 3666 8785 3663 8785 3664 8741 3636 8778
3635 8798 3645 8806 3653 8803 3660 8804
3663 8806 3664 8806 3665 8807 3668 8805
TIME...MOT...LOC 2244Z 272DEG 51KT 3688 8771 3645 8826
13The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Montgomery, Stewart | 31 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.