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Special Weather Statement, NWS Nashville, TN

March 31, 2016Houston County, Montgomery County, Stewart County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this special weather statement at Mar 31, 2016, 1:06 PM CDT for Houston County, Montgomery County, Stewart County, Tennessee. It was in force for 54 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: Mar 31, 2016, 1:06 PM CDT (18:06 UTC)
Expired: Mar 31, 2016, 2:00 PM CDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN

Counties Houston County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Stewart County, TN

The radar

The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:07 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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 109 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

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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 Mar 31, 12:48 PM CDT, 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 31, 12:48 PM CDT, 18 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 31, 4:58 AM CDT, 8 hours 8 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 31, 11:01 AM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1101 AM CDT THU MAR 31 2016

TNZ005>011-023>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-010000-
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-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...DOVER...CLARKSVILLE...SPRINGFIELD...
GALLATIN...LAFAYETTE...CELINA...BYRDSTOWN...ERIN...WAVERLY...
DICKSON...ASHLAND CITY...NASHVILLE...LEBANON...MOUNT JULIET...
HARTSVILLE...CARTHAGE...GAINESBORO...COOKEVILLE...LIVINGSTON...
JAMESTOWN...LOBELVILLE...CENTERVILLE...HOHENWALD...FRANKLIN...
BRENTWOOD...COLUMBIA...LEWISBURG...MURFREESBORO...WOODBURY...
SMITHVILLE...SPARTA...CROSSVILLE...SHELBYVILLE...TULLAHOMA...
MANCHESTER...MCMINNVILLE...ALTAMONT...SPENCER...WAYNESBORO...
LAWRENCEBURG...PULASKI
1101 AM CDT THU MAR 31 2016

...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS...AND SEVERE STORMS THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING...

SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME SEVERE
WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL AND ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL
REDEVELOP AND SPREAD ACROSS MIDDLE TENNESSEE DURING THE AFTERNOON
AND INTO THE EVENING. SOME STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE LOCALLY
HEAVY RAINFALL.

A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH MIDDLE TENNESSEE AROUND MIDNIGHT
ENDING THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER.

STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL CONTINUE TODAY...WITH SPEEDS OF 15 TO
25 MPH AND GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH.

STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA...NOAA WEATHER RADIO...AND THE INTERNET
FOR THE LATEST FORECASTS AND UPDATES ON THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE
WEATHER HERE IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE.

BOYD
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Special weather statement, Mar 31, 1:06 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
106 PM CDT THU MAR 31 2016

TNZ005-006-023>025-311900-
MONTGOMERY TN-STEWART TN-DICKSON TN-HUMPHREYS TN-HOUSTON TN-
106 PM CDT THU MAR 31 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR STEWART...NORTHEASTERN
HUMPHREYS...HOUSTON...MONTGOMERY AND NORTHWESTERN DICKSON COUNTIES
UNTIL 200 PM CDT...

AT 103 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS JUST WEST OF THE TENNESSEE RIVER. MOVEMENT WAS
RAPIDLY TO THE NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH.

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS...
ALONG WITH BRIEF TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CLARKSVILLE...DOVER...ERIN...TENNESSEE RIDGE...BIG ROCK...CHARLOTTE...
VANLEER...CUMBERLAND CITY...SLAYDEN...HOUSTON COUNTY AIRPORT...INDIAN
MOUND...LAND BETWEEN THE LAKES...PALMYRA...WOODLAWN AND CUNNINGHAM.

LAT...LON 3666 8785 3663 8785 3664 8719 3635 8727
      3634 8728 3632 8728 3616 8732 3617 8792
      3618 8793 3629 8794 3635 8798 3645 8806
      3649 8806 3652 8804 3656 8803 3668 8807
TIME...MOT...LOC 1803Z 257DEG 51KT 3666 8826 3627 8834

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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, 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, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence, Lewis, Wayne	46 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

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Tennessee, 2016 Every special weather statement in 2016

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.