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Special Weather Statement, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this special weather statement at Jul 8, 2014, 5:47 PM CDT for Marshall County, Tennessee. It was in force for 28 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
- Jul 8, 2014, 5:47 PM CDT (22:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2014, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
County Marshall County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:46 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 51 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
- 582 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1160 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jul 8, 1:56 PM CDT, 3 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 1:56 PM CDT, 3 hours 51 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 156 PM CDT TUE JUL 8 2014 .DISCUSSION... STEPPED OUTSIDE AND NOTICED WE STILL HAVE QUITE A BIT OF ALTOCUMULUS OVERHEAD INDICATIVE OF WARM ADVECTION AT THAT LEVEL. TEMPS ARE WARMING AT 700 MBARS WITH +8 CELSIUS ALONG THE PLATEAU TO A +10 CELSIUS ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND EVEN WARMER 700 TEMPS BACK IN OKLAHOMA THAT ARE GETTING ADVECTED EASTWARD TOWARD ARKANSAS...BUT STILL NOT ENOUGH TO CAP US OFF. SURFACE FRONT DRAPED DOWN THROUGH FAR SOUTHERN ILLINOIS THEN DOWN ACROSS SOUTHERN MISSOURI THEN INTO OKLAHOMA. FRONT IS SLOWING ON SOUTH END WITH 35 KNOT WESTERLY LOW LEVEL JET BOOTHEEL INTO WEST TENNESSEE. STILL A LOT OF CONVECTIVE INHIBITION TO OVERCOME AND IT'S GOING TO TAKE A WHILE. STILL BEST SURFACE BASED LI'S IN EASTERN ARKANSAS INTO WESTERN TENNESSEE ALONG WITH 2 INCH PRECIPITABLE WATER THAT IS BEING TRANSPORTED IN THIS DIRECTION. ALL IN ALL THINK IT WILL BE LATE AFTERNOON BEFORE WE SEE DEVELOPMENT AHEAD OF FRONT AND IT MAY BE EVEN AFTER 23Z THIS EVENING. BEST AREA FOR DEVELOPMENT WOULD BE BOOTHEEL AND ALONG KENTUCKY/TENNESSEE BORDER. AM BEGINNING TO SEE SOME NEWLY DEVELOPED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ALONG ALABAMA BORDER WORKING EASTWARD. THIS IN AN AREA OF HIGH SURFACE BASED CAPES AND LI'S DOWN AROUND -6. STRONG STORMS WITH GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE TONIGHT IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. SURFACE FRONT WILL BISECT MID STATE ON WEDNESDAY WITH HIGHER POPS GENERALLY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 40. COULD STILL SEE SOME STRONG STORMS SOUTHERN AREAS WEDNESDAY MORNING. WINDS ON WEDNESDAY WILL TURN TO THE NORTHWEST DURING THE DAY AS FRONT SINKS SOUTH OF MID STATE BY WEDNESDAY EVENING. I KEPT A SMALL POP IN FOR SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE AND PLATEAU FOR WEDNESDAY EVENING WITH FRONT NEARBY. UPPER TROUGH DOMINATES INTO FRIDAY BUT UPPER RIDGE BUILDS IN AS WE GO THROUGH THE WEEKEND WITH UPPER TROUGH DIGGING DOWN EATING INTO UPPER RIDGE FIRST OF NEXT WEEK. THEREFORE I KEPT THURSDAY AND FRIDAY DRY THEN INTRODUCED A SMALL POP FOR SATURDAY AND SUNDAY AND INCREASED POPS MONDAY AND TUESDAY AS NORTHWEST FLOW DOMINATES EARLY IN THE WEEK. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... NASHVILLE 70 87 66 88 / 70 40 20 05 CLARKSVILLE 67 87 62 88 / 60 20 10 05 CROSSVILLE 68 80 62 83 / 60 60 30 20 COLUMBIA 70 86 64 87 / 70 60 20 05 LAWRENCEBURG 71 86 65 89 / 70 70 30 05 WAVERLY 69 87 64 88 / 60 30 10 05 && .OHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && BOYD 01
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 8, 5:06 PM CDT, 41 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 506 PM CDT TUE JUL 8 2014 TNZ005>011-023>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-091015- 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- 506 PM CDT TUE JUL 8 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH TONIGHT ACROSS MIDDLE TENNESSEE. THE TIMING OF THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL WILL BE FROM 9 PM UNTIL MIDNIGHT ACROSS THE NORTHWESTERN HALF OF THE MID STATE...AND MIDNIGHT UNTIL 3 AM FOR THE SOUTHEASTERN HALF. SOME SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE PRIOR TO THAT TIME ACROSS SOUTHERN MIDDLE TN AS WELL. DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...HAIL...AND HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH WILL CREATE A LOCALIZED FLASH FLOOD THREAT...ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY FOR AREAS SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 40...BUT ESPECIALLY FOR THOSE CLOSER TO THE ALABAMA STATE LINE. STRONG WIND GUSTS AND HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... REPORTS FROM TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING...AND POSSIBLY AGAIN ON WEDNESDAY. SPOTTER THUNDERSTORM REPORTING CRITERIA... TORNADO FUNNEL CLOUD FLOODING HAIL >= 1/2 INCH WINDS > 50 MPH (MEASURED) STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TREES OR POWER LINES DOWN 21
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Special weather statement, Jul 8, 5:02 PM CDT, 45 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 547 PM CDT TUE JUL 8 2014 TNZ059>062-075-082315- BEDFORD-MARSHALL-MAURY-RUTHERFORD-WILLIAMSON- 547 PM CDT TUE JUL 8 2014 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR BEDFORD...MARSHALL...MAURY... RUTHERFORD AND WILLIAMSON COUNTIES... AT 547 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR SPRING HILL...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH INCLUDE I-65 EAST OF COLUMBIA...SPRING HILL...EAGLEVILLE...CHAPEL HILL...ROVER AND UNIONVILLE. SMALL HAIL...WINDS 40 TO 50 MPH...BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL...AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. LAT...LON 3572 8651 3555 8656 3564 8711 3580 8696 31
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 8:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Cheatham, Macon, Robertson, Smith, Sumner, Trousdale | 52 min |
| Jul 8, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Marshall | 34 min |
| Jul 8, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles | 11 min |
| Jul 8, 5:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Wayne | 28 min |
| Jul 8, 5:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Lewis | 23 min |
| Jul 8, 5:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Wayne | 32 min |
| Jul 8, 5:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Wayne | 27 min |
| Jul 8, 6:05 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OHX | Wayne | 115 min |
| Jul 8, 6:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Williamson | 30 min |
| Jul 8, 6:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Lawrence, Wayne | 43 min |
| Jul 8, 6:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Cannon | 29 min |
| Jul 8, 6:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Wayne | 3 hr |
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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.