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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 264, NWS Nashville, TN

October 18, 20254 counties in Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 18, 2025, 10:43 PM CDT for 4 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 32 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
Oct 18, 2025, 10:43 PM CDT (03:43 UTC)
Expired
Oct 18, 2025, 11:15 PM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Houston County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Stewart County, TN

The radar

The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 369 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Birmingham, AL at 00:00Z on 2025-10-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Birmingham, AL at 00:00Z on 2025-10-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 84 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1822 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
158 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 18, 10:17 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOHXHouston, Stewart28 min
Oct 19, 10:01 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOHXSumner44 min
Oct 19, 11:38 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOHXFentress, Overton, Pickett52 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.