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Heat Advisory 2, NWS Nashville, TN

July 4, 201817 counties in Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this heat advisory at Jul 4, 2018, 3:19 AM CDT for 17 counties in Tennessee. It took effect at Jul 4, 2018, 11:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 4, 2018, 3:19 AM CDT (08:19 UTC)
In effect from
Jul 4, 2018, 11:00 AM CDT
Expired
Jul 4, 2018, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN

Counties Cheatham County, TN, Davidson County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Macon County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Perry County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Smith County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Williamson County, TN, Wilson County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:18 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 336 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Birmingham, AL at 00:00Z on 2018-07-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1606 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Birmingham, AL at 00:00Z on 2018-07-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -13 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1606 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1395 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-21 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this heat advisory 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 heat advisory went out at Jul 3, 11:23 PM CDT, 3 hours 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 11:23 PM CDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before
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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.