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Special Weather Statement, NWS Nashville, TN

June 1, 2016Rutherford County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this special weather statement at Jun 1, 2016, 1:50 PM CDT for Rutherford County, Tennessee. It was in force for 40 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: Jun 1, 2016, 1:50 PM CDT (18:50 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2016, 2:30 PM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN

County Rutherford County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:50 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, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 47 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: 210 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -75 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1404 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 62 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 Jun 1, 1:26 PM CDT, 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 1:26 PM CDT, 24 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 1, 5:00 AM CDT, 8 hours 50 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
500 AM CDT WED JUN 1 2016

TNZ005>011-023>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-021000-
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-
500 AM CDT WED JUN 1 2016

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF MIDDLE
TENNESSEE.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 1, 1:12 PM CDT, 38 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
112 PM CDT WED JUN 1 2016

TNZ057-011845-
HICKMAN TN-
112 PM CDT WED JUN 1 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL HICKMAN COUNTY UNTIL 145
PM CDT...

AT 112 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM
NEAR CENTERVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM...ALONG
WITH BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING
STRIKES...AND SMALL HAIL.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CENTERVILLE...NUNNELLY AND PINEWOOD.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 10 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

&&

LAT...LON 3566 8753 3573 8766 3595 8753 3588 8734
TIME...MOT...LOC 1811Z 209DEG 18KT 3579 8754

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Special weather statement, Jun 1, 1:50 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
150 PM CDT WED JUN 1 2016

TNZ062-063-011930-
CANNON TN-RUTHERFORD TN-
150 PM CDT WED JUN 1 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR WEST CENTRAL CANNON AND CENTRAL
RUTHERFORD COUNTIES UNTIL 230 PM CDT...

AT 150 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING AN AREA OF SCATTERED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...CENTERED 9 MILES SOUTH OF
MURFREESBORO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS AREA OF
SCATTERED STORMS...ALONG WITH BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL...FREQUENT CLOUD
TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES...AND SMALL HAIL.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MURFREESBORO...WOODBURY...WALTERHILL...FOSTERVILLE...CHRISTIANA...
READYVILLE...ROCKVALE AND LASCASSAS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 10 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

&&

LAT...LON 3576 8656 3599 8632 3596 8624 3582 8606
      3566 8634 3566 8635 3565 8635 3565 8637
      3563 8639
TIME...MOT...LOC 1848Z 225DEG 23KT 3573 8644

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 1, 1:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Hickman	33 min
Jun 1, 2:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Cumberland	26 min
Jun 1, 2:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Hickman	22 min
Jun 1, 2:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Dickson	27 min
Jun 1, 2:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Stewart	31 min
Jun 1, 2:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Smith, Wilson	23 min
Jun 1, 3:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Putnam	45 min
Jun 1, 3:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Wilson	22 min
Jun 1, 3:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Cheatham	34 min
Jun 1, 3:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Trousdale	31 min
Jun 1, 3:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Houston, Stewart	27 min
Jun 1, 3:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Wilson	19 min
Jun 1, 3:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Clay, Jackson	42 min
Jun 1, 3:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Davidson	25 min
Jun 1, 3:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Houston	51 min
Jun 1, 3:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Sumner, Trousdale	46 min
Jun 1, 4:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Houston	41 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.