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Special Weather Statement, NWS Nashville, TN

October 6, 2021Rutherford County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this special weather statement at Oct 6, 2021, 7:04 PM CDT for Rutherford County, Tennessee. It was in force for 41 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: Oct 6, 2021, 7:04 PM CDT (00:04 UTC)
Expired: Oct 6, 2021, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 40

County Rutherford County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 25 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: 595 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 871 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 117 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 2.7

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The text

As transmitted.

450 
WWUS84 KOHX 070004
SPSOHX

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Nashville TN
704 PM CDT Wed Oct 6 2021
 
TNZ027-028-062-070045-
Rutherford TN-Davidson TN-Wilson TN-
704 PM CDT Wed Oct 6 2021

...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southeastern
Davidson, north central Rutherford and southwestern Wilson Counties
through 745 PM CDT...

At 704 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Murfreesboro, moving north at 20 mph.

HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around 
         unsecured objects.

Locations impacted include...
Murfreesboro, Smyrna, La Vergne, Walterhill, Rural Hill and
Gladeville.

This includes the following highways...
 Interstate 24 between mile markers 70 and 78.
 Interstate 840 between mile markers 52 and 73.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building. 

A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 1000 PM CDT for Middle
Tennessee.

&&

LAT...LON 3586 8634 3583 8648 3609 8661 3615 8634
TIME...MOT...LOC 0004Z 165DEG 18KT 3591 8643 

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH

$$

Whitehead

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 6, 7:11 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OHX	Cumberland, Fentress, Pickett	3 hr
Oct 6, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson, Hickman	33 min
Oct 6, 7:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Fentress	31 min
Oct 6, 7:16 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OHX	Putnam, White	3 hr
Oct 6, 7:22 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OHX	DeKalb, Warren, White	3 hr
Oct 6, 7:32 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OHX	Humphreys, Perry	3 hr
Oct 6, 7:44 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OHX	Bedford, Rutherford	3 hr
Oct 6, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Fentress, Pickett	26 min
Oct 6, 7:48 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Giles	5 hr
Oct 6, 7:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Coffee	51 min
Oct 6, 8:07 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OHX	Davidson, Maury, Williamson	113 min
Oct 6, 8:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Humphreys	28 min
Oct 6, 8:28 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OHX	Humphreys	4 hr
Oct 6, 8:52 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Cumberland, Fentress, Overton, Pickett, Putnam, White	3 hr
Oct 6, 8:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Humphreys, Perry	4 hr
Oct 6, 8:59 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Perry, Wayne	4 hr
Oct 6, 9:15 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OHX	Coffee, Grundy, Warren	3 hr
Oct 6, 10:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Bedford	3 hr
Oct 6, 10:40 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OHX	Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery	3 hr
Oct 6, 10:56 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OHX	Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Rutherford	3 hr
Oct 6, 10:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Cannon	33 min
Oct 6, 11:35 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OHX	Cannon, DeKalb, Rutherford, Smith, Wilson	3 hr
Oct 7, 12:24 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OHX	DeKalb, Jackson, Putnam, Smith, Trousdale, Wilson	2 hr
Oct 7, 1:45 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	OHX	Bedford	8 hr
Oct 7, 9:29 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	OHX	Perry	20 hr

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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.