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Special Weather Statement, NWS Nashville, TN

October 10, 2014Davidson County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this special weather statement at Oct 10, 2014, 8:55 PM CDT for Davidson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 35 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
Oct 10, 2014, 8:55 PM CDT (01:55 UTC)
Expired
Oct 10, 2014, 9:30 PM CDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN

County Davidson County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KBYH), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 327 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 2014-10-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 996 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 2014-10-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 51 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
996 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1116 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
58 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
3.6

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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 Oct 10, 7:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 10, 7:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 10, 10:19 AM CDT, 10 hours 36 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1019 AM CDT FRI OCT 10 2014

TNZ005>011-023>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-111330-
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-
830 AM CDT FRI OCT 10 2014

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE TODAY AND TONIGHT.
SOME STORMS WILL BE STRONG...WITH HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND GUSTY WINDS.
PONDING OF WATER IS EXPECTED IN LOW LYING SPOTS...ESPECIALLY WHERE A
NUMBER OF THUNDERSTORMS TRAIN ACROSS THE SAME AREA.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.

ADDITIONAL ROUNDS OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST OVER THE WEEKEND
AND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK...WILL INCREASE THE POSSIBILITY FOR FOR
FLASH FLOODING. ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS ARE EXPECTED LATE MONDAY
INTO EARLY TUESDAY...AS A STRONG COLD FRONT SWEEPS THROUGH.

.SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT...

SPOTTERS AND LOCAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS ARE ENCOURAGED
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER AND HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS TO THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE.

SPOTTER THUNDERSTORM REPORTING CRITERIA...
TORNADO
FUNNEL CLOUD
FLOODING
HAIL >= 1/2 INCH
WINDS > 50 MPH (MEASURED)
STRUCTURAL DAMAGE
TREES OR POWER LINES DOWN

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 10, 7:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 10, 7:41 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOHXHickman49 min
Oct 10, 7:46 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXHickman, Humphreys29 min
Oct 10, 8:12 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXHickman33 min
Oct 10, 8:43 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXHickman, Maury, Williamson15 min
Oct 10, 9:08 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryOHXDavidson, Williamson112 min
Oct 10, 9:19 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOHXRutherford26 min
Oct 10, 9:53 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOHXBedford, Cannon, Clay, Coffee, DeKalb, Fentress and 15 more37 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Tennessee, 2014Every 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.