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Special Weather Statement, NWS Huntsville, AL

August 11, 2014Moore County, Tennessee

NWS Huntsville, AL issued this special weather statement at Aug 11, 2014, 8:21 PM CDT for Moore County, Tennessee. It was in force for 54 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: Aug 11, 2014, 8:21 PM CDT (01:21 UTC)
Expired: Aug 11, 2014, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Huntsville, AL

County Moore County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 90 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: 788 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 798 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.9

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Huntsville, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 11, 9:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Colbert	27 min
Aug 11, 8:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Lincoln, Moore	61 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Tennessee, 2014 Every special weather statement in 2014

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.