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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Nashville, TN

May 20, 20254 counties in Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 20, 2025, 6:30 PM CDT for 4 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 25 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 20, 2025, 6:30 PM CDT (23:30 UTC)
Expired: May 20, 2025, 6:55 PM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Clay County, TN, Macon County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Trousdale County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:34 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 20, 2:36 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

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 20, 6:20 PM CDT, 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 20, 6:20 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 20, 6:07 PM CDT, 23 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 20, 6:09 PM CDT, 21 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Nashville TN
609 PM CDT Tue May 20 2025

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0607 PM     Hail             2 SE Dowelltown         36.00N 85.91W
05/20/2025  M1.25 Inch       De Kalb            TN   Public

            Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.).

&&

Local storm report, May 20, 6:22 PM CDT, 8 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Nashville TN
622 PM CDT Tue May 20 2025

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0519 PM     Tstm Wnd Dmg     6 SSE Smyrna            35.91N 86.47W
05/20/2025                   Rutherford         TN   Public

            Downed powerline at Florence Road & Valor
            Drive. Time estimated.

&&

Local storm report, May 20, 6:23 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Nashville TN
623 PM CDT Tue May 20 2025

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0515 PM     Tstm Wnd Dmg     Adams                   36.58N 87.06W
05/20/2025                   Robertson          TN   Utility Company

            643 customers without power in Adams.

&&

Local storm report, May 20, 6:28 PM CDT, 2 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Nashville TN
628 PM CDT Tue May 20 2025

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0619 PM     Hail             Auburntown              35.95N 86.10W
05/20/2025  E1.00 Inch       Cannon             TN   Public

            Estimated quarter size hail in Auburntown.
            Time estimated from radar.

&&

Local storm report, May 20, 6:30 PM CDT, 0 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 20, 9:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman, Perry	36 min
May 20, 10:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wayne	43 min
May 20, 10:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Williamson	40 min
May 20, 10:41 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Lewis	49 min
May 20, 12:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Lawrence, Wayne	50 min
May 20, 1:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Giles	34 min
May 20, 1:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Giles	31 min
May 20, 2:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Giles	15 min
May 20, 2:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson, Hickman, Humphreys, Perry	64 min
May 20, 3:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	OHX	Hickman, Lewis, Maury	28 min
May 20, 3:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Hickman	36 min
May 20, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OHX	Davidson, Dickson, Hickman, Maury, Williamson	64 min
May 20, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Coffee, Grundy	62 min
May 20, 4:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Houston, Montgomery, Stewart	67 min
May 20, 4:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Lawrence, Lewis, Maury	33 min
May 20, 4:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Stewart	28 min
May 20, 4:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson, Houston, Humphreys	54 min
May 20, 4:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	OHX	Cannon, Davidson, Rutherford, Williamson, Wilson	56 min
May 20, 4:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Marshall, Maury, Williamson	35 min
May 20, 5:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Montgomery, Robertson	21 min
May 20, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Dickson, Hickman, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery and 2 more	54 min
May 20, 5:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Bedford, Marshall, Rutherford	37 min
May 20, 5:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Montgomery, Robertson	34 min
May 20, 5:27 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OHX	Davidson, Maury, Rutherford, Williamson	4 hr
May 20, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Montgomery, Robertson, Sumner	64 min
May 20, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OHX	Cannon, DeKalb, Rutherford, Wilson	66 min
May 20, 5:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Grundy, Warren	42 min
May 20, 5:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Cannon, Coffee, Rutherford	35 min
May 20, 6:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson, Hickman, Maury, Rutherford, Sumner and 3 more	54 min
May 20, 6:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson, Maury, Rutherford, Williamson, Wilson	3 hr
May 20, 6:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Rutherford	51 min
May 20, 6:26 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Robertson, Sumner, Trousdale and 1 more	3 hr
May 20, 6:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Van Buren, Warren	33 min
May 20, 6:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Cumberland, Van Buren, White	66 min
May 20, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	DeKalb, Jackson, Putnam, Smith, White, Wilson	47 min

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.