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Special Weather Statement, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this special weather statement at Mar 16, 2021, 1:47 AM CDT for Wayne County, Tennessee. It was in force for 43 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 16, 2021, 1:47 AM CDT (06:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 2021, 2:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
County Wayne County, TN
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 197 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2890 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>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 16, 1:07 AM CDT, 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 16, 1:07 AM CDT, 40 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 15, 3:12 PM CDT, 10 hours 35 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Nashville TN 312 PM CDT Mon Mar 15 2021 TNZ005>011-023>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-162015- 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- 312 PM CDT Mon Mar 15 2021 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for Middle Tennessee. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday. Strong to severe thunderstorms will be possible Wednesday afternoon and evening across all of Middle Tennessee with damaging winds as the main threat. Flash flooding will also be possible, and an isolated tornado cannot be ruled out. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be needed. Please relay any information about observed severe weather to the NWS while following all local, state, and CDC guidelines. 13
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 16, 1:47 AM CDT, 0 minutes before
Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Nashville TN 147 AM CDT Tue Mar 16 2021 TNZ093-094-160730- Lawrence TN-Wayne TN- 147 AM CDT Tue Mar 16 2021 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHERN WAYNE AND SOUTHWESTERN LAWRENCE COUNTIES UNTIL 230 AM CDT... At 147 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near Walnut Grove, or 11 miles northeast of J P Coleman State Park, moving east at 40 mph. Pea size hail and winds in excess of 30 mph will be possible with this storm. Locations impacted include... Collinwood, Cypress Inn, Iron City and Lutts. LAT...LON 3501 8799 3515 8798 3524 8758 3500 8752 TIME...MOT...LOC 0647Z 257DEG 36KT 3503 8799 Whitehead
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Mar 16, 2:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Wayne | 40 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.