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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 204, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2025, 4:05 PM CDT for Coffee County, Grundy County, Tennessee. It was in force for 55 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 25, 2025, 4:05 PM CDT (21:05 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2025, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Coffee County, TN, Grundy County, TN
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:08 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 25, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 99 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 999 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 25, 12:28 PM CDT, 3 hours 37 minutes earlier. Its key messages:
- Updated at 1228 PM CDT Sun May 25 2025
- Daily rain and thunderstorm chances continue into mid-week. Severe threat is low, but if there are any, the main hazard will be strong winds.
- Monitoring flooding potential next work week. Continue to monitor the forecast.
Area forecast discussion, May 25, 12:28 PM CDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Nashville TN 1228 PM CDT Sun May 25 2025 ...New AVIATION... .KEY MESSAGES... Updated at 1228 PM CDT Sun May 25 2025 - Daily rain and thunderstorm chances continue into mid-week. Severe threat is low, but if there are any, the main hazard will be strong winds. - Monitoring flooding potential next work week. Continue to monitor the forecast. && .SHORT TERM... (Rest of today through tonight) Issued at 1057 AM CDT Sun May 25 2025 Surface obs this morning indicate a weak surface low over OK, and an associated front is the focus for thunderstorm development. A line of thunderstorms is taking shape over AR this morning with additional development behind it in OK & KS. This line over AR is expected to grow and better organize itself as it dives south and east. As it does so, it'll clip our southwestern counties which will have to be monitored for strong to severe potential this afternoon where a slight risk (level 2 out 5) is still in place. Fortunately, our severe weather risk remains low with unfavorable parameters. CAPE values are low at around 500-800 J/kg with bulk shear at around 30-40 knots. Mid- and low-level lapse rates are also unimpressive at around 6 C/km. HRRR soundings across the area only show a low severe weather threat through the evening with the main threat from any stronger storm being strong to potentially damaging winds. The thunderstorms developing over OK & KS will move into the area right behind the first wave, more or less following the same path. Again, unfavorable parameters still show a low severe weather threat. Thunderstorms will move out of the area late this evening, with a low chance for lingering light rain overnight. && .LONG TERM... (Monday through next Sunday) Issued at 1057 AM CDT Sun May 25 2025 Our weather pattern remains very unsettled as we begin a new week. With abundant moisture in place, additional showers and storms will develop Monday, but it will be that evening and overnight where more widespread rain moves into the area. This is due to a shortwave that moves through the area Monday night through Tuesday, providing additional forcing for greater coverage and more substantial rain. Models show PWAT values of 1.75 inches to near 2 inches, which would easily surpass the 90th percentile for this time of the year and potentially approach daily records. Forecast soundings are too saturated to suggest much of a severe weather threat, but with moisture values like this, we'll have to monitor the flooding potential closely. Especially across the southwest due to the repeated rounds of rain. The shortwave exits our area Tuesday, but our daily rain chances continue with a troughing pattern setting up over the eastern CONUS. An unsettled pattern and plenty of moisture still hanging around keeps low to medium rain chances in the forecast through Friday. We'll likely be entering a more summer-like pattern with isolated to scattered storms following a diurnal pattern. A weak front moves through the area Friday, finally scouring out our moisture which means that a drier weekend is currently favored. Unfortunately, we won't be cooling off post-front as temperatures make their way back into the 80s this weekend. && .AVIATION... (18Z TAFS) Issued at 1228 PM CDT Sun May 25 2025 Ceilings will continue lowering into MVFR conditions through the TAF period. SH and TS will continue moving from west to east across all TAF sites into the 03z hour. Low ceilings will persist once the rain clears the area, and winds will remain northeasterly or variable under 10 knots. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Nashville 61 77 67 80 / 60 70 90 100 Clarksville 60 73 65 76 / 50 70 100 90 Crossville 57 72 61 73 / 60 70 100 90 Columbia 62 77 67 80 / 70 80 90 90 Cookeville 58 75 64 76 / 50 60 100 100 Jamestown 55 74 60 74 / 50 50 100 100 Lawrenceburg 63 78 66 79 / 70 80 90 90 Murfreesboro 61 77 66 81 / 60 80 90 100 Waverly 58 72 63 76 / 60 80 100 90 && .OHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... None. && SHORT TERM...Clements LONG TERM....Clements AVIATION.....Holley
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Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| May 25, 1:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Hickman, Humphreys | 48 min |
| May 25, 1:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman, Lewis, Perry, Wayne | 40 min |
| May 25, 2:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Hickman, Lawrence, Lewis, Maury, Perry and 1 more | 39 min |
| May 25, 2:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence, Marshall, Maury, Wayne | 48 min |
| May 25, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Coffee, Marshall | 51 min |
| May 25, 3:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Cannon, DeKalb, Rutherford | 36 min |
| May 25, 4:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | White | 33 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.