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Special Weather Statement, NWS Nashville, TN

June 21, 2014Pickett County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this special weather statement at Jun 21, 2014, 9:07 AM CDT for Pickett County, Tennessee. It was in force for 38 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: Jun 21, 2014, 9:07 AM CDT (14:07 UTC)
Expired: Jun 21, 2014, 9:45 AM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN

County Pickett County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:06 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, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 143 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: 144 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -125 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1330 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

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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 Jun 21, 8:47 AM CDT, 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 8:47 AM CDT, 20 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 21, 5:00 AM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
500 AM CDT SAT JUN 21 2014

TNZ005>011-023>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-221000-
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-
500 AM CDT SAT JUN 21 2014

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 21, 9:07 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
907 AM CDT SAT JUN 21 2014

TNZ010-011-033-034-211445-
CLAY-FENTRESS-OVERTON-PICKETT-
907 AM CDT SAT JUN 21 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CLAY...FENTRESS...OVERTON AND
PICKETT COUNTIES...

AT 857 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME STRONG...EXTENDING FROM ABOUT 10
MILES NORTHWEST OF PALL MALL TO 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF DALE HOLLOW
LAKE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL AFFECT PARTS OF
THE NORTHERN CUMBERLAND PLATEAU BETWEEN 915 AM CDT AND 1000 AM CDT
THIS MORNING.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH INCLUDE DALE HOLLOW LAKE...HUNTERSVILLE
...WOLF RIVER DOCK AND BYRDSTOWN.

BRIEF WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGEST
STORMS...ALONG WITH TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING
STRIKES. BOATERS ON DALE HOLLOW LAKE SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR UNTIL
THE STORMS HAVE PASSED.

LAT...LON 3661 8483 3660 8481 3640 8514 3662 8542
      3663 8539 3663 8530 3663 8511

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 21, 10:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Clay, Fentress, Overton, Pickett	37 min
Jun 21, 1:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Jackson, Putnam	39 min
Jun 21, 2:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Williamson	37 min
Jun 21, 2:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Williamson	38 min
Jun 21, 2:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson, Williamson	47 min
Jun 21, 2:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Jackson, Putnam, Smith	35 min
Jun 21, 2:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson, Sumner	44 min
Jun 21, 3:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Rutherford	39 min
Jun 21, 3:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Wilson	35 min
Jun 21, 4:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Coffee	35 min
Jun 21, 4:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cannon, Coffee, Rutherford	24 min
Jun 21, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	DeKalb, Smith, Wilson	23 min
Jun 21, 4:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Grundy	34 min
Jun 21, 5:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Grundy	18 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.