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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 3, 2023, 11:26 AM CST for 5 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 34 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 3, 2023, 11:26 AM CST (17:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 2023, 12:00 PM CST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Damage threat
- Considerable
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
Counties Bedford County, TN, Cannon County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Rutherford County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:30 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 6:24 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Mar 3, 10:34 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 60 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
- 594 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 85 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 624 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 822 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 3, 11:25 AM CST, 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 3, 11:25 AM CST, 1 minute before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 3, 3:31 AM CST, 7 hours 55 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Nashville TN 331 AM CST Fri Mar 3 2023 TNZ005>011-023>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-040945- 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- 331 AM CST Fri Mar 3 2023 ...corrected.... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for Middle Tennessee. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Strong gradient winds are expected to start blowing around 6 am and by 9 am, sustained winds of 25 to 40 mph with gusts up to 60 mph will be possible. Winds will begin relaxing around 6 pm Friday evening. Mixed into the non-thunderstorm winds, several severe storms will be possible. Additional damaging straight line winds and a few tornadoes will be possible from 9 am in the west to about 3 pm on the Cumberland Plateau. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will likely be needed today. Please relay any information about observed severe weather to the NWS while following all local and state guidelines. 21
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 10:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Montgomery | 15 min |
| Mar 3, 10:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Giles, Lawrence, Marshall, Maury | 35 min |
| Mar 3, 11:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Robertson, Sumner, Williamson | 25 min |
| Mar 3, 11:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Davidson, Marshall, Rutherford, Sumner, Williamson and 1 more | 47 min |
| Mar 3, 11:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Robertson, Sumner | 26 min |
| Mar 3, 11:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, DeKalb, Rutherford, Warren and 2 more | 34 min |
| Mar 3, 12:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Clay, Jackson, Macon, Overton, Smith, Trousdale | 30 min |
| Mar 3, 12:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland, DeKalb, Fentress, Overton, Putnam, Van Buren and 2 more | 36 min |
| Mar 3, 1:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Fentress, Overton, Pickett, Putnam | 30 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.