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Winter Weather Advisory 2, NWS Nashville, TN

February 10, 20128 counties in Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this winter weather advisory at Feb 10, 2012, 10:49 AM CST for 8 counties in Tennessee. It took effect at Feb 10, 2012, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 13 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 10, 2012, 10:49 AM CST (16:49 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 10, 2012, 6:00 PM CST
Expired
Feb 11, 2012, 6:36 AM CST
In force
13 hr
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN

Counties Clay County, TN, Cumberland County, TN, Fentress County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Overton County, TN, Pickett County, TN, Putnam County, TN, White County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 331 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2012-02-10Temperature 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2012-02-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 68 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
1348 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter weather advisory 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 winter weather advisory went out at Feb 10, 10:32 AM CST, 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 10, 10:32 AM CST, 17 minutes before
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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.