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Special Weather Statement, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this special weather statement at Oct 12, 2014, 3:41 PM CDT for Clay County, Tennessee. It was in force for 34 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 12, 2014, 3:41 PM CDT (20:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 12, 2014, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
County Clay County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:43 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 476 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 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 Oct 12, 3:30 PM CDT, 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 12, 3:30 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 12, 5:00 AM CDT, 10 hours 41 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 500 AM CDT SUN OCT 12 2014 TNZ005>011-023>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-131000- 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 SUN OCT 12 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WILL OVERSPREAD THE MID STATE TONIGHT...A FEW OF WHICH WILL LIKELY BE STRONG...WITH BRIEF WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH...HEAVY DOWNPOURS...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. PONDING OF WATER WILL LIKELY OCCUR IN LOW LYING AREAS WHERE HEAVY RAINFALL OCCURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. SOUTH WINDS WILL INCREASE MONDAY...AHEAD OF A STRONG COLD FRONT...WITH GUSTS OF 30 TO 35 LIKELY DURING THE AFTERNOON. ANYONE DRIVING A HIGH PROFILE VEHICLE...ESPECIALLY ON EAST TO WEST ROADWAYS...SHOULD EXPECT TO DEAL WITH BUFFETING WINDS . MONDAY EVENING THROUGH EARLY TUESDAY MORNING...ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS...WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS...ARE EXPECTED IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE. ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. IN ADDITION...SINCE THE GROUND WILL STILL BE MOIST FROM RECENT RAINS...RAPID RUN OFF IS EXPECTED...ALONG WITH THE POSSIBILITY FOR FLASH FLOODING. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... EVEN THOUGH ANY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE BRIEF AND ISOLATED, SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO CLOSELY MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO CALL IN ANYTHING REACHING REPORTING CRITERIA. SPOTTER THUNDERSTORM REPORTING CRITERIA... TORNADO FUNNEL CLOUD FLOODING HAIL >= 1/2 INCH WINDS > 50 MPH (MEASURED) STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TREES OR POWER LINES DOWN 19
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 12, 2:42 PM CDT, 59 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 242 PM CDT SUN OCT 12 2014 TNZ005>011-023>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-130900- 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- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...DOVER...CLARKSVILLE...SPRINGFIELD... GALLATIN...LAFAYETTE...CELINA...BYRDSTOWN...ERIN...WAVERLY... DICKSON...ASHLAND CITY...NASHVILLE...LEBANON...MOUNT JULIET... HARTSVILLE...CARTHAGE...GAINESBORO...COOKEVILLE...LIVINGSTON... JAMESTOWN...LOBELVILLE...CENTERVILLE...HOHENWALD...FRANKLIN... BRENTWOOD...COLUMBIA...LEWISBURG...MURFREESBORO...WOODBURY... SMITHVILLE...SPARTA...CROSSVILLE...SHELBYVILLE...TULLAHOMA... MANCHESTER...MCMINNVILLE...ALTAMONT...SPENCER...WAYNESBORO... LAWRENCEBURG...PULASKI 242 PM CDT SUN OCT 12 2014 ...SEVERE WEATHER AND FLASH FLOODING POSSIBLE MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY... AN INTENSE WEATHER SYSTEM THAT IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN DEVELOPING OVER THE PLAINS TONIGHT WILL LIKELY BRING SEVERE WEATHER TO MIDDLE TENNESSEE AS EARLY AS LATE MONDAY AFTERNOONEVENING THROUGH TUESDAY. BY LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING MONDAY...MIDDLE TENNESSEE WILL BE WELL WITHIN THE WARM SECTOR OF THIS SYSTEM. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE DURING THIS TIME FRAME AND ANY OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE. DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND ONE OR TWO TORNADOES ARE NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION. BY MIDNIGHT MONDAY NIGHT WE WILL BE TURNING OUR FOCUS TO THE WEST. AN INTENSE LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ONGOING AND MOVING TOWARDS THE MID-STATE. AS THE LINE CROSSES THE TENNESSEE RIVER...THE POTENTIAL WILL EXIST FOR DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...HAIL... TORNADOES AND FLASH FLOODING. WHILE THE LINE IS EXPECTED TO WEAKEN SLIGHTLY WITH TIME...THESE SAME SEVERE WEATHER THREATS WILL BE POSSIBLE AS FAR EAST AS THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU BY DAYBREAK TUESDAY. NOT TO BE LEFT OUT...AS THE SURFACE LOW RAMPS UP AND MOVES CLOSER TO THE STATE MONDAY...GRADIENT WINDS WILL BEGIN TO STRENGTHEN. THIS MEANS THAT WINDS OUTSIDE ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP COULD BE AS STRONG AS 15-25 MPH SUSTAINED WITH GUSTS AS HIGH AS 35 TO 40 MPH. THESE ARE LIKELY TO START AROUND NOON ON MONDAY AND LAST THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY MORNING. PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THAT THE BULK OF THIS SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. NOCTURAL TORANDOES ARE ONE OF THE BIGGEST KILLERS IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE. STAY WEATHER AWARE THROUGHOUT MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY AND HAVE A PLAN TO SHELTER IN ALREADY IN PLACE BEFORE SEVERE WEATHER ARRIVES. 27
Local storm report, Oct 12, 2:58 PM CDT, 43 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
258 PM CDT SUN OCT 12 2014
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0242 PM HAIL 7 NNW SMITHVILLE 36.05N 85.87W
10/12/2014 E0.88 INCH DE KALB TN PUBLIC
NICKEL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC AT THE
CENTER HILL MARINA AND YACHT CLUB.
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EVENT NUMBER OHX1400639
MHRLocal storm report, Oct 12, 3:30 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 2:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb, Jackson, Putnam, Smith | 44 min |
| Oct 12, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Clay, Jackson | 36 min |
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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.