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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Nashville, TN

March 16, 2026Cumberland County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 16, 2026, 1:42 AM CDT for Cumberland County, Tennessee. It was in force for 18 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: Mar 16, 2026, 1:42 AM CDT (06:42 UTC)
Expired: Mar 16, 2026, 2:00 AM CDT
In force: 18 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 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 06:42 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
Mar 15, 8:22 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 6.7 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: 59 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -216 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1722 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 296 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 536 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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 Mar 16, 12:06 AM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 16, 12:06 AM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 15, 10:04 PM CDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Nashville TN
1004 PM CDT Sun Mar 15 2026

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

1000 PM     Hail             1 W Dickson             36.08N 87.39W
03/15/2026  E1.25 Inch       Dickson            TN   Public

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

&&

Local storm report, Mar 15, 11:17 PM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 15, 11:22 PM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 15, 11:25 PM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 16, 12:56 AM CDT, 46 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 16, 1:19 AM CDT, 23 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
Mar 15, 7:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Stewart	19 min
Mar 15, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OHX	Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery, Stewart	65 min
Mar 15, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Perry, Wayne	46 min
Mar 15, 9:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Perry	42 min
Mar 15, 9:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman, Humphreys, Perry	64 min
Mar 15, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman, Lawrence, Lewis, Maury, Perry, Wayne	67 min
Mar 15, 9:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OHX	Cheatham, Dickson, Montgomery, Robertson	59 min
Mar 15, 9:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Montgomery	25 min
Mar 15, 9:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys	66 min
Mar 15, 10:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Dickson, Hickman, Williamson	26 min
Mar 15, 10:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Maury, Williamson	30 min
Mar 15, 10:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Hickman, Robertson, Sumner and 2 more	53 min
Mar 15, 10:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OHX	Giles, Hickman, Lawrence, Lewis, Maury, Wayne and 1 more	50 min
Mar 15, 10:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Davidson, Sumner, Wilson	26 min
Mar 15, 10:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford, Wilson	34 min
Mar 15, 10:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Giles, Lawrence	31 min
Mar 15, 11:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OHX	Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Giles, Marshall, Maury and 3 more	42 min
Mar 15, 11:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OHX	Clay, DeKalb, Jackson, Macon, Rutherford, Smith and 3 more	52 min
Mar 15, 11:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OHX	Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, DeKalb, Rutherford, Warren	62 min
Mar 15, 11:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Clay, DeKalb, Jackson, Macon, Overton, Putnam and 1 more	40 min
Mar 15, 11:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Clay, DeKalb, Jackson, Macon, Overton, Putnam and 1 more	40 min
Mar 16, 12:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Coffee, DeKalb, Grundy, Van Buren, Warren, White	57 min
Mar 16, 12:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Clay, Fentress, Overton, Pickett, Putnam	56 min
Mar 16, 12:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cumberland	67 min
Mar 16, 10:46 AM CDT	Winter Weather Advisory	OHX	Clay, Coffee, Cumberland, DeKalb, Fentress, Grundy and 7 more	8 hr

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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.