Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 348
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 7, 2016, 1:47 PM CDT for 37 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 7, 2016, 1:47 PM CDT (18:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2016, 5:46 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 37 counties
Bedford County, TN, Benton County, TN, Cannon County, TN, Carroll County, TN, Cheatham County, TN, Clay County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Cumberland County, TN, Davidson County, TN, DeKalb County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Fentress County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Henry County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Macon County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Overton County, TN, Pickett County, TN, Putnam County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Smith County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN, Weakley County, TN, White County, TN, Williamson County, TN, Wilson County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:47 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.
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 2:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Montgomery, Robertson | 31 min |
| Jul 7, 2:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Robertson, Sumner | 37 min |
| Jul 7, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Macon, Sumner, Trousdale, Wilson | 36 min |
| Jul 7, 3:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Robertson, Sumner, Wilson | 32 min |
| Jul 7, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Clay, Jackson, Macon, Overton, Putnam, Smith and 1 more | 43 min |
| Jul 7, 3:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb, Smith, Trousdale, Wilson | 34 min |
| Jul 7, 4:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Clay, Fentress, Overton, Pickett | 43 min |
| Jul 7, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland, Fentress, Overton, Putnam, White | 34 min |
| Jul 7, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland, DeKalb, Putnam, Smith, Van Buren, White | 31 min |
| Jul 7, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland, Van Buren, White | 46 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 54 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
- 649 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -143 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 756 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 213 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 376 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 12:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Crittenden, Daviess and 14 more | 59 min |
| Jul 7, 12:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Ballard, Barren, Boyle and 50 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 7, 2:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Boyle, Breckinridge, Butler and 37 more | 54 min |
| Jul 7, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Estill, Harlan, Jackson and 13 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 7, 5:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bell, Clay, Harlan, Knox, Laurel, Leslie and 1 more | 53 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.