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Special Weather Statement, NWS Nashville, TN

May 26, 2016Robertson County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this special weather statement at May 26, 2016, 3:10 PM CDT for Robertson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 50 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: May 26, 2016, 3:10 PM CDT (20:10 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2016, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN

County Robertson County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:13 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 52 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: 265 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -140 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1187 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 166 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 181 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.1

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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 May 26, 1:01 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 1:01 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 26, 1:10 PM CDT, 2 hours before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
110 PM CDT THU MAY 26 2016

TNZ005>011-023>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-271815-
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-
110 PM CDT THU MAY 26 2016

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF MIDDLE
TENNESSEE.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND LAST
THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS...WITH THE MOST COVERAGE NEAREST THE
KENTUCKY/TENNESSEE BORDER. ANY STORMS THAT FORM WILL PRODUCE
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. MINOR FLASH
FLOODING MAY BECOME A THREAT IF THUNDERSTORMS TRAIN OVER THE SAME
AREAS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND
EVENING...WITH A GREATER CHANCE ON SATURDAY. A FEW STORMS ON
SATURDAY COULD BE STRONG WITH GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL BEING THE MAIN
THREATS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT INSTANCES OF HEAVY RAIN OR MINOR
FLOODING...AS WELL AS HAIL OR HIGH WINDS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE IN NASHVILLE.

AL

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 26, 3:10 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 3:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Houston	23 min
May 26, 3:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Cheatham	35 min
May 26, 3:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Stewart	33 min
May 26, 3:46 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OHX	Robertson	3 hr
May 26, 3:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Robertson	34 min
May 26, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson, Robertson	24 min
May 26, 4:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Houston	44 min
May 26, 4:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Davidson	24 min
May 26, 4:26 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OHX	Sumner	2 hr
May 26, 4:32 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OHX	Houston, Humphreys	118 min
May 26, 4:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Cheatham	28 min
May 26, 4:42 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Houston, Humphreys	2 hr
May 26, 4:45 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OHX	Robertson	2 hr
May 26, 4:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Overton	24 min
May 26, 4:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Cheatham	48 min
May 26, 5:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson	36 min
May 26, 5:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery and 2 more	3 hr

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.