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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Nashville, TN

March 31, 2016Lawrence County, Lewis County, Wayne County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 31, 2016, 5:14 PM CDT for Lawrence County, Lewis County, Wayne County, Tennessee. It was in force for 46 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Mar 31, 2016, 5:14 PM CDT (22:14 UTC)
Expired: Mar 31, 2016, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Lawrence County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Wayne County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 31, 5:54 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	5 S Lawrenceburg, TN	TREES DOWN ACROSS SOUTHEASTERN PORTIONS OF COUNTY

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 31, 3:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 135 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 834 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 673 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 836 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

199 
WUUS54 KOHX 312214
SVROHX
TNC099-101-181-312300-
/O.NEW.KOHX.SV.W.0007.160331T2214Z-160331T2300Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
514 PM CDT THU MAR 31 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN WAYNE COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
  SOUTHERN LEWIS COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
  LAWRENCE COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 514 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR COLLINWOOD...
  OR 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WAYNESBORO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

  HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

  IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE 
           TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES. 

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  LAWRENCEBURG...LORETTO...COLLINWOOD...SUMMERTOWN...ST. JOSEPH...
  ETHRIDGE...IRON CITY...LEOMA...WESTPOINT AND HENRYVILLE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

INTENSE THUNDERSTORM LINES CAN PRODUCE BRIEF TORNADOES AND WIDESPREAD
SIGNIFICANT WIND DAMAGE. ALTHOUGH A TORNADO IS NOT IMMEDIATELY
LIKELY...IT IS BEST TO MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF
A BUILDING. THIS STORM MAY CAUSE SERIOUS INJURY AND SIGNIFICANT
PROPERTY DAMAGE.

&&

LAT...LON 3501 8777 3545 8767 3548 8730 3500 8725
TIME...MOT...LOC 2214Z 236DEG 48KT 3523 8765 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

07

1 follow-up statement

931 
WWUS54 KOHX 312242
SVSOHX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
542 PM CDT THU MAR 31 2016

TNC101-312251-
/O.CAN.KOHX.SV.W.0007.000000T0000Z-160331T2300Z/
LEWIS TN-
542 PM CDT THU MAR 31 2016

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHERN LEWIS COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

THE STORMS WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAVE MOVED OUT OF LEWIS
COUNTY THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR
CENTRAL TENNESSEE.

LAT...LON 3501 8777 3521 8771 3546 8733 3545 8733
      3545 8732 3544 8730 3500 8725
TIME...MOT...LOC 2241Z 253DEG 45KT 3533 8739 3503 8755 

$$

TNC099-181-312300-
/O.CON.KOHX.SV.W.0007.000000T0000Z-160331T2300Z/
WAYNE TN-LAWRENCE TN-
542 PM CDT THU MAR 31 2016

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CDT
FOR SOUTHEASTERN WAYNE AND LAWRENCE COUNTIES...

AT 541 PM CDT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAWRENCEBURG TO 7 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF LORETTO...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE TO 
         ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES. 

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
LAWRENCEBURG...LORETTO...SUMMERTOWN...ST. JOSEPH...ETHRIDGE...IRON CITY...
LEOMA...WESTPOINT AND HENRYVILLE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

INTENSE THUNDERSTORM LINES CAN PRODUCE BRIEF TORNADOES AND WIDESPREAD
SIGNIFICANT WIND DAMAGE. ALTHOUGH A TORNADO IS NOT IMMEDIATELY
LIKELY...IT IS BEST TO MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF
A BUILDING. THESE STORMS MAY CAUSE SERIOUS INJURY AND SIGNIFICANT
PROPERTY DAMAGE.

&&

LAT...LON 3501 8777 3521 8771 3546 8733 3545 8733
      3545 8732 3544 8730 3500 8725
TIME...MOT...LOC 2241Z 253DEG 45KT 3533 8739 3503 8755 

TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 31, 1:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Houston, Montgomery, Stewart	54 min
Mar 31, 3:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Stewart	43 min
Mar 31, 3:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Humphreys	28 min
Mar 31, 3:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Perry, Wayne	26 min
Mar 31, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson, Hickman, Houston, Humphreys, Perry	39 min
Mar 31, 4:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Hickman, Lewis, Perry	46 min
Mar 31, 4:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Montgomery, Robertson	23 min
Mar 31, 4:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Hickman, Lewis, Maury	42 min
Mar 31, 4:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lewis, Wayne	26 min
Mar 31, 5:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Robertson, Sumner	29 min
Mar 31, 5:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Maury	27 min
Mar 31, 5:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Macon, Sumner, Trousdale	36 min
Mar 31, 5:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Marshall, Maury	29 min
Mar 31, 5:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Giles, Lawrence	31 min
Mar 31, 5:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Sumner	49 min
Mar 31, 6:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Marshall, Rutherford	39 min
Mar 31, 6:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Giles, Lawrence	31 min
Mar 31, 6:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Cannon	43 min
Mar 31, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cannon, DeKalb, Warren, Wilson	31 min
Mar 31, 6:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Giles, Marshall	28 min
Mar 31, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Smith, Sumner, Trousdale, Wilson	22 min

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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.