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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 140, NWS Nashville, TN

May 2, 2025Giles County, Lawrence County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2025, 12:12 PM CDT for Giles County, Lawrence County, Tennessee. It was in force for 33 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 2, 2025, 12:12 PM CDT (17:12 UTC)
Expired: May 2, 2025, 12:45 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Giles County, TN, Lawrence County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:15 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 2, 9:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 116 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: 1065 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 597 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 100 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 2.2

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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 2, 11:09 AM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 2, 11:09 AM CDT, 1 hour 3 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 2, 2:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Warren	17 min
May 2, 10:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Stewart	46 min
May 2, 11:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman, Humphreys, Perry	35 min
May 2, 11:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson, Hickman, Humphreys, Lewis, Perry	38 min
May 2, 12:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wayne	39 min
May 2, 12:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Robertson	35 min
May 2, 12:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Dickson, Hickman, Maury, Williamson	46 min
May 2, 12:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lewis, Maury	43 min
May 2, 12:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OHX	Lawrence, Lewis, Wayne	36 min
May 2, 12:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Williamson	30 min
May 2, 12:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Lawrence	46 min
May 2, 12:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Robertson	20 min
May 2, 1:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence, Wayne	19 min
May 2, 1:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Davidson	35 min
May 2, 1:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Lawrence, Marshall, Maury, Rutherford, Williamson	35 min
May 2, 1:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson, Rutherford, Sumner, Williamson, Wilson	42 min
May 2, 1:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Sumner	21 min
May 2, 1:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Bedford	33 min
May 2, 1:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Giles, Lawrence	3 hr
May 2, 1:36 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OHX	Giles, Lawrence, Lewis, Maury	3 hr
May 2, 1:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Macon, Trousdale	20 min
May 2, 1:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Maury	31 min
May 2, 1:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Macon, Sumner, Trousdale	38 min
May 2, 1:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Rutherford	35 min
May 2, 1:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Wilson	34 min
May 2, 2:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Marshall	28 min
May 2, 2:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Wayne	34 min
May 2, 2:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Bedford	29 min
May 2, 2:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Cannon	23 min
May 2, 2:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Humphreys	37 min
May 2, 2:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Clay	35 min
May 2, 2:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Grundy	30 min
May 2, 2:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Giles, Lawrence	36 min
May 2, 2:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Cumberland	29 min
May 2, 3:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Cumberland	33 min
May 2, 3:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Putnam, White	35 min
May 2, 4:08 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OHX	Cumberland, Van Buren, White	3 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.