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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Nashville, TN

May 27, 2024Fentress County, Overton County, Pickett County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2024, 12:11 AM CDT for Fentress County, Overton County, Pickett County, 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: May 27, 2024, 12:11 AM CDT (05:11 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2024, 12:45 AM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Fentress County, TN, Overton County, TN, Pickett County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:12 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 26, 9:43 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 139 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: 1289 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -112 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1123 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 359 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 533 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 2.5

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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 May 26, 6:27 PM CDT, 5 hours 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 6:27 PM CDT, 5 hours 44 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 9:55 PM CDT	River Flood Advisory	OHX	Montgomery, Robertson	6 hr
May 26, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Houston, Montgomery, Robertson, Stewart	60 min
May 26, 10:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Cheatham, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery, Stewart	61 min
May 26, 11:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Davidson, Macon, Robertson, Smith, Sumner, Trousdale	59 min
May 26, 11:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Clay, Jackson	40 min
May 27, 12:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Davidson, Hickman, Perry, Williamson	26 min
May 27, 12:09 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OHX	Robertson, Sumner	5 hr
May 27, 12:09 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Clay, Fentress, Jackson, Overton, Pickett, Putnam	51 min
May 27, 12:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	DeKalb, Rutherford	31 min
May 27, 1:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OHX	Hickman, Lawrence, Lewis, Maury, Perry, Wayne	69 min
May 27, 4:07 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OHX	Montgomery, Robertson	34 hr
May 27, 5:25 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	OHX	Montgomery	56 hr
May 27, 11:47 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	OHX	Sumner, Trousdale, Wilson	9 hr

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.