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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Nashville, TN

March 15, 2024Hickman County, Lewis County, Maury County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 15, 2024, 12:49 AM CDT for Hickman County, Lewis County, Maury County, Tennessee. It was in force for 26 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 15, 2024, 12:49 AM CDT (05:49 UTC)
Expired: Mar 15, 2024, 1:15 AM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

Counties Hickman County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Maury County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:52 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, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 86 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: 606 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -99 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1679 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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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 Mar 15, 12:31 AM CDT, 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 15, 12:31 AM CDT, 18 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 14, 10:31 PM CDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 14, 11:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 14, 11:22 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 14, 11:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 15, 12:08 AM CDT, 41 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 15, 12:10 AM CDT, 39 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
Mar 14, 8:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Wayne	27 min
Mar 14, 8:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Lawrence	26 min
Mar 14, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence, Wayne	47 min
Mar 14, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence, Lewis, Maury	33 min
Mar 14, 9:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Lewis, Maury	29 min
Mar 14, 9:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Maury, Williamson	27 min
Mar 14, 9:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson, Williamson	27 min
Mar 14, 9:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Stewart	33 min
Mar 14, 9:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Davidson	27 min
Mar 14, 9:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Giles	33 min
Mar 14, 9:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson, Robertson	11 min
Mar 14, 10:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson, Robertson, Sumner	25 min
Mar 14, 10:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Hickman	29 min
Mar 14, 10:35 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OHX	Lawrence, Wayne	2 hr
Mar 14, 11:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Giles, Marshall	26 min
Mar 14, 11:24 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OHX	Giles, Lawrence	3 hr
Mar 15, 1:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Hickman	26 min
Mar 15, 1:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Maury	34 min
Mar 15, 2:09 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OHX	Maury, Williamson	3 hr
Mar 15, 2:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Lawrence, Lewis, Wayne	29 min
Mar 15, 2:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Lawrence	27 min
Mar 15, 3:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Giles	23 min
Mar 15, 8:53 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	OHX	Lawrence	17 hr
Mar 15, 9:00 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OHX	Giles, Lawrence, Wayne	4 hr
Mar 15, 10:22 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	OHX	Giles	12 hr
Mar 15, 4:44 PM CDT	River Flood Advisory	OHX	Perry	4 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.