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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 2, 2025, 6:54 PM CDT for Robertson County, Sumner County, Tennessee. It was in force for 21 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
- Apr 2, 2025, 6:54 PM CDT (23:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2025, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 21 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Robertson County, TN, Sumner County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:53 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 2:52 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 41 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
- 202 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -387 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 936 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 352 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 471 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
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 Apr 2, 6:44 PM CDT, 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 2, 6:44 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
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Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Nashville TN
628 PM CDT Wed Apr 2 2025
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0606 PM Hail 5 NNE Ashland City 36.33N 87.01W
04/02/2025 E2.50 Inch Cheatham TN Public
&&Local storm report, Apr 2, 6:29 PM CDT, 25 minutes before
Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Nashville TN
629 PM CDT Wed Apr 2 2025
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0627 PM Hail Springfield 36.50N 86.88W
04/02/2025 E1.00 Inch Robertson TN Public
&&Special weather statement, Apr 2, 6:29 PM CDT, 25 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Nashville TN
629 PM CDT Wed Apr 2 2025
TNZ028-062-030000-
Rutherford TN-Wilson TN-
629 PM CDT Wed Apr 2 2025
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT NORTH CENTRAL RUTHERFORD AND
CENTRAL WILSON COUNTIES THROUGH 700 PM CDT...
At 629 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Walterhill, or 11 miles north of Murfreesboro, moving northeast at 50
mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Cedars Of Lebanon State Park, Lebanon, Tuckers Crossroads, Dickerson
Chapel Recreation Area, Gladeville, Walterhill, Smyrna, and La
Vergne.
This includes the following highways...
Interstate 40 between mile markers 231 and 247.
Interstate 840 between mile markers 59 and 76.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until midnight CDT for Middle
Tennessee.
&&
LAT...LON 3632 8619 3633 8617 3631 8615 3627 8612
3624 8611 3623 8612 3620 8609 3594 8642
3600 8654 3631 8636 3631 8630 3634 8629
3635 8627 3633 8626 3632 8627 3630 8627
3631 8625 3634 8625 3635 8623
TIME...MOT...LOC 2329Z 214DEG 43KT 3602 8643
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
40/SizemoreThe office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman, Humphreys, Perry | 17 min |
| Apr 2, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Hickman, Maury, Williamson | 23 min |
| Apr 2, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall, Maury, Rutherford, Williamson | 37 min |
| Apr 2, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson | 35 min |
| Apr 2, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Houston, Humphreys, Stewart | 37 min |
| Apr 2, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Robertson, Sumner | 29 min |
| Apr 2, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Wayne | 43 min |
| Apr 2, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Robertson, Sumner | 39 min |
| Apr 2, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Houston, Montgomery, Stewart | 43 min |
| Apr 2, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Robertson, Sumner | 48 min |
| Apr 2, 6:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Wilson | 31 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.