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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 375

June 26, 201369 counties in Tennessee

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 26, 2013, 10:55 PM EDT for 69 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 26, 2013, 10:55 PM EDT (02:55 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 2013, 4:00 AM EDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
1 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 69 counties

Anderson County, TN, Bedford County, TN, Benton County, TN, Bledsoe County, TN, Blount County, TN, Bradley County, TN, Campbell County, TN, Cannon County, TN, Carter County, TN, Cheatham County, TN, Claiborne County, TN, Clay County, TN, Cocke County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Cumberland County, TN, Davidson County, TN, DeKalb County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Fentress County, TN, Grainger County, TN, Greene County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Hamblen County, TN, Hamilton County, TN, Hancock County, TN, Hawkins County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Jefferson County, TN, Johnson County, TN, Knox County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Loudon County, TN, Macon County, TN, Marion County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN, McMinn County, TN, Meigs County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Morgan County, TN, Overton County, TN, Perry County, TN, Pickett County, TN, Polk County, TN, Putnam County, TN, Rhea County, TN, Roane County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Scott County, TN, Sequatchie County, TN, Sevier County, TN, Smith County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Sullivan County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Unicoi County, TN, Union County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN, Washington County, TN, White County, TN, Williamson County, TN, Wilson County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What SPC expected

The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.

Two or more tornadoes
10%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
2%
Ten or more severe wind reports
30%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
10%
Ten or more severe hail reports
20%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
5%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
60%

Warnings issued inside it

7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 27, 12:18 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXAnderson, Campbell, Claiborne, Morgan, Scott, Union57 min
Jun 27, 1:13 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXAnderson, Campbell, Claiborne, Grainger, Knox, Scott and 1 more47 min
Jun 27, 1:39 AM EDTTornado WarningMRXClaiborne, Hancock36 min
Jun 27, 2:01 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXClaiborne, Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen, Hancock and 3 more44 min
Jun 27, 2:05 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXAnderson, Blount, Knox, Sevier, Union40 min
Jun 27, 2:05 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBenton, Hickman, Humphreys, Perry40 min
Jun 27, 3:41 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXBlount49 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 27, 12:56 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCMadison94 min
Jun 27, 1:39 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Chowan, Columbus and 20 more2 hr
Jun 27, 6:25 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Cumberland, Duplin, Jones and 8 more65 min
Jun 26, 9:56 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBedford, Benton, Bledsoe, Cannon, Carroll, Cheatham and 45 more94 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.