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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 173, NWS Nashville, TN

May 8, 2025Cumberland County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2025, 6:26 PM CDT for Cumberland 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 8, 2025, 6:26 PM CDT (23:26 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 2025, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Cumberland County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 8, 12:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 145 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: 684 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 596 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.6

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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 8, 6:14 PM CDT, 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 8, 6:14 PM CDT, 12 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 8, 4:26 PM CDT, 2 hours before

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Local storm report, May 8, 4:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 8, 5:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 8, 5:14 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 8, 5:22 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 8, 5:43 PM CDT, 43 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 8, 12:35 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	OHX	Giles, Hickman, Lawrence, Lewis, Marshall, Maury and 2 more	7 hr
May 8, 12:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Houston, Stewart	50 min
May 8, 1:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OHX	Houston, Humphreys	27 min
May 8, 1:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery, Stewart	49 min
May 8, 2:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Dickson, Montgomery	46 min
May 8, 2:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Lawrence, Lewis, Maury	45 min
May 8, 3:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman, Lewis, Perry, Wayne	40 min
May 8, 3:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson, Williamson	39 min
May 8, 3:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson	38 min
May 8, 3:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Lawrence, Marshall, Maury	49 min
May 8, 3:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Clay, Fentress, Overton, Pickett	24 min
May 8, 3:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson, Sumner, Wilson	38 min
May 8, 3:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson, Rutherford, Williamson, Wilson	52 min
May 8, 3:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman, Lewis, Maury, Perry	7 min
May 8, 4:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Marshall, Maury	27 min
May 8, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson, Sumner, Wilson	24 min
May 8, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cannon, Rutherford, Wilson	45 min
May 8, 4:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Clay, Jackson, Overton	21 min
May 8, 4:24 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OHX	Davidson	3 hr
May 8, 4:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Smith, Wilson	36 min
May 8, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Lawrence, Maury	28 min
May 8, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	DeKalb, Jackson, Putnam, Smith, Wilson	43 min
May 8, 5:01 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OHX	Davidson, Sumner, Wilson	2 hr
May 8, 5:25 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OHX	Cumberland	5 hr
May 8, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wayne	34 min
May 8, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson, Rutherford, Williamson, Wilson	20 min
May 8, 5:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles	12 min
May 8, 6:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cumberland	35 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.