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Special Weather Statement, NWS Nashville, TN

March 11, 20264 counties in Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this special weather statement at Mar 11, 2026, 12:21 PM CDT for 4 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 11, 2026, 12:21 PM CDT (17:21 UTC)
Expired: Mar 11, 2026, 1:00 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Hail: 0.25 in
Wind: 50

Counties Dickson County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Montgomery County, TN

The radar

The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 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.

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: 613 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 982 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 165 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 188 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 4.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Mar 11, 11:24 AM CDT, 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 11, 11:24 AM CDT, 57 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 11, 12:21 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Nashville TN
1221 PM CDT Wed Mar 11 2026

TNZ005-006-023>025-056-057-111800-
Hickman TN-Stewart TN-Dickson TN-Humphreys TN-Montgomery TN-
Houston TN-Perry TN-
1221 PM CDT Wed Mar 11 2026

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT WESTERN DICKSON...CENTRAL
MONTGOMERY...SOUTHEASTERN STEWART...HOUSTON...NORTHERN PERRY...
HUMPHREYS AND NORTHWESTERN HICKMAN COUNTIES THROUGH 100 PM CDT...

At 1221 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from near Springville to Lexington. Movement was
east at 60 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and pea 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...
Dickson, Waverly, Camden, Erin, Clarksville, New Johnsonville,
McEwen, Tennessee Ridge, Hurricane Mills, Charlotte, Lobelville,
Vanleer, Cumberland City, Slayden, Palmyra, I-40 Near The Tennessee
River, Bucksnort, Mousetail Landing State Park, Pinewood, and Houston
County Airport.

This includes the following highways...
 Interstate 40 between mile markers 136 and 166.
 Interstate 24 between mile markers 7 and 13.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 3577 8798 3592 8793 3594 8793 3594 8800
      3596 8802 3605 8799 3613 8792 3635 8797
      3662 8713 3656 8714 3639 8723 3635 8728
      3632 8729 3632 8726 3575 8756 3566 8802
      3572 8804
TIME...MOT...LOC 1721Z 248DEG 54KT 3621 8806 3566 8838

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH

Baggett

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 11, 12:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Dickson, Hickman, Humphreys	35 min
Mar 11, 1:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Robertson	53 min
Mar 11, 1:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence, Lewis, Perry, Wayne	44 min
Mar 11, 1:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson, Robertson, Sumner, Wilson	46 min
Mar 11, 2:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Lawrence, Lewis, Maury, Wayne	52 min
Mar 11, 2:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Sumner	34 min
Mar 11, 2:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Hickman, Williamson	46 min
Mar 11, 2:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Lawrence	59 min
Mar 11, 2:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Macon, Smith, Sumner, Trousdale, Wilson	42 min
Mar 11, 2:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson, Maury, Williamson	25 min
Mar 11, 2:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Lawrence, Marshall, Maury	46 min
Mar 11, 2:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Giles	46 min
Mar 11, 3:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Clay, Jackson, Macon	41 min
Mar 11, 3:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Marshall	41 min
Mar 11, 3:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Rutherford, Wilson	37 min
Mar 11, 3:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Marshall, Rutherford	41 min
Mar 11, 3:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Clay, Jackson, Macon, Smith, Trousdale	34 min
Mar 11, 3:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Cannon, DeKalb, Smith	46 min
Mar 11, 3:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Coffee, Grundy, Warren	61 min
Mar 11, 4:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Clay, Fentress, Jackson, Overton, Pickett, Putnam	82 min
Mar 11, 4:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Grundy, Van Buren, Warren	41 min
Mar 11, 5:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Cumberland	38 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.