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Special Weather Statement, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this special weather statement at Apr 4, 2014, 1:50 AM CDT for Montgomery County, Stewart County, Tennessee. It was in force for 40 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
- Apr 4, 2014, 1:50 AM CDT (06:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 4, 2014, 2:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
Counties Montgomery County, TN, Stewart County, TN
The radar
The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:53 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, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 117 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 999 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1348 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 236 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 289 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 6.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>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 Apr 4, 12:49 AM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 4, 12:49 AM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 3, 2:42 PM CDT, 11 hours 8 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 242 PM CDT THU APR 3 2014 TNZ005>011-023>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-041945- STEWART-MONTGOMERY-ROBERTSON-SUMNER-MACON-CLAY-PICKETT-HOUSTON- HUMPHREYS-DICKSON-CHEATHAM-DAVIDSON-WILSON-TROUSDALE-SMITH- JACKSON-PUTNAM-OVERTON-FENTRESS-PERRY-HICKMAN-LEWIS-WILLIAMSON- MAURY-MARSHALL-RUTHERFORD-CANNON-DE KALB-WHITE-CUMBERLAND-BEDFORD- COFFEE-WARREN-GRUNDY-VAN BUREN-WAYNE-LAWRENCE-GILES- 242 PM CDT THU APR 3 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. AN INTENSE SPRING STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REGION TONIGHT. A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AND REACH THE TENNESSEE RIVER AROUND MIDNIGHT TONIGHT...THEN RACE ACROSS MIDDLE TENNESSEE BEFORE EXITING THE AREA FRIDAY MORNING. THE MAIN THREATS WITH THIS LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL...BUT A COUPLE OF TORNADOES CANNOT BE RULED OUT. THE GREATEST LIKELIHOOD FOR SEVERE WEATHER ASSOCIATED WITH THE SQUALL LINE WILL EXIST WEST OF THE INTERSTATE 65 CORRIDOR...BUT SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS ALL OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. BEHIND THE OVERNIGHT SQUALL LINE...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ALONG THE COLD FRONT AS IT MOVES THROUGH THE AREA. THE MAIN AREA OF CONCERN FOR DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL WILL BE EAST OF INTERSTATE 65 THROUGH THE NOON HOUR ON FRIDAY. GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 15 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED BEHIND THE COLD FRONT ON FRIDAY...AND A WIND ADVISORY MAY BE NEEDED FOR MUCH OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... REPORTS FROM TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED TONIGHT INTO FRIDAY MORNING. SPOTTERS CAN MAKE REPORTS VIA TWITTER USING HASHTAG #TSPOTTER TO MAKE A REPORT VIA FACEBOOK GO TO: WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/US.NATIONALWEATHERSERVICE.NASHVILLE.GOV SPOTTER THUNDERSTORM REPORTING CRITERIA... TORNADO FUNNEL CLOUD FLOODING HAIL >= 1/2 INCH WINDS > 50 MPH (MEASURED) STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TREES OR POWER LINES DOWN 27
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 4, 1:50 AM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
150 AM CDT FRI APR 4 2014
TNZ005-006-040730-
MONTGOMERY-STEWART-
150 AM CDT FRI APR 4 2014
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR MONTGOMERY AND STEWART
COUNTIES...
AT 142 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 27 MILES NORTHWEST
OF PEMBROKE TO MURRAY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH INCLUDE LAND BETWEEN THE LAKES...BIG
ROCK...DOVER...INDIAN MOUND AND WOODLAWN.
HEAVY RAINFALL AND WINDS 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS.
THIS LINE HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING RAINFALL RATES OF UP TO AN INCH
PER HOUR. THIS MAY RESULT IN LOCALIZED FLOODING OF FLOOD PRONE URBAN
AND LOW LYING AREAS.
LAT...LON 3667 8785 3664 8784 3665 8719 3663 8716
3637 8760 3637 8771 3633 8781 3633 8789
3635 8794 3635 8798 3644 8807 3650 8806
3653 8804 3666 8808 3668 8807
TB12The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 2:31 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Montgomery, Stewart | 44 min |
| Apr 4, 3:20 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Houston, Montgomery, Stewart | 40 min |
| Apr 4, 3:46 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Hickman, Lawrence, Lewis, Perry, Wayne | 59 min |
| Apr 4, 4:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Perry, Wayne | 50 min |
| Apr 4, 4:41 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Cheatham, Dickson, Giles, Hickman, Houston, Humphreys and 5 more | 49 min |
| Apr 4, 4:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Hickman, Houston, Humphreys | 61 min |
| Apr 4, 5:13 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Bedford, Cannon, Cheatham, Coffee, Davidson, Dickson and 10 more | 47 min |
| Apr 4, 5:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Hickman, Williamson | 41 min |
| Apr 4, 5:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Rutherford, Smith, Sumner, Williamson, Wilson | 57 min |
| Apr 4, 5:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall, Maury, Rutherford, Williamson | 43 min |
| Apr 4, 6:00 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Bedford, Cannon, Clay, Coffee, Cumberland, DeKalb and 15 more | 60 min |
| Apr 4, 6:11 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cannon, DeKalb, Rutherford, Smith, Wilson | 34 min |
| Apr 4, 6:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, DeKalb, Rutherford, Warren and 1 more | 42 min |
| Apr 4, 7:07 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Clay, Cumberland, DeKalb, Fentress, Grundy, Jackson and 6 more | 53 min |
| Apr 4, 7:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland, Fentress | 55 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.