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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 232

June 5, 201425 counties in Alabama; 26 counties in Georgia; 34 counties in Tennessee

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 5, 2014, 2:27 PM CDT for 25 counties in Alabama; 26 counties in Georgia; 34 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 5, 2014, 2:27 PM CDT (19:27 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 2014, 8:55 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
2 in
Strongest gust expected
70 kt
All 85 counties

Blount County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Colbert County, AL, Cullman County, AL, DeKalb County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Franklin County, AL, Jackson County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Lauderdale County, AL, Lawrence County, AL, Limestone County, AL, Madison County, AL, Marion County, AL, Marshall County, AL, Morgan County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Shelby County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Walker County, AL, Winston County, AL, Bartow County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Catoosa County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Dade County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Fannin County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Heard County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Murray County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Polk County, GA, Troup County, GA, Walker County, GA, Whitfield County, GA, Bedford County, TN, Bledsoe County, TN, Bradley County, TN, Cannon County, TN, Cheatham County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Davidson County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Franklin County, TN, Giles County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Hamilton County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Lincoln County, TN, Marion County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN, McMinn County, TN, Meigs County, TN, Moore County, TN, Perry County, TN, Polk County, TN, Rhea County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Sequatchie County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN, Wayne County, TN, Williamson County, TN, Wilson County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What SPC expected

The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.

Two or more tornadoes
20%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
10%
Ten or more severe wind reports
95%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
80%
Ten or more severe hail reports
60%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
40%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
95%

Warnings issued inside it

21 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 3:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXHickman, Lawrence, Lewis, Perry, Wayne68 min
Jun 5, 3:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHUNLauderdale51 min
Jun 5, 3:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDickson, Houston, Humphreys53 min
Jun 5, 3:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHUNJackson, Marshall36 min
Jun 5, 3:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHUNColbert, Franklin, Lauderdale33 min
Jun 5, 3:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXGiles33 min
Jun 5, 4:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHUNColbert, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone26 min
Jun 5, 4:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHUNColbert, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone35 min
Jun 5, 4:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHUNDeKalb9 min
Jun 5, 4:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDade, Walker23 min
Jun 5, 4:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHUNLawrence, Limestone, Madison, Morgan33 min
Jun 5, 5:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHUNCullman, Jackson, Madison, Marshall, Morgan30 min
Jun 5, 5:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBartow, Chattooga, Floyd, Gordon49 min
Jun 5, 5:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHUNCullman, DeKalb, Jackson, Madison, Marshall33 min
Jun 5, 5:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBlount, Etowah, St. Clair44 min
Jun 5, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXCalhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne, Etowah60 min
Jun 5, 5:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHUNDeKalb, Jackson29 min
Jun 5, 6:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCatoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Walker, Whitfield59 min
Jun 5, 6:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFloyd, Haralson, Polk52 min
Jun 5, 6:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBartow, Floyd, Gordon36 min
Jun 5, 6:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDawson, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Hall42 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 121 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2014-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 360 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2014-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 207 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
360 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-168 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
644 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
207 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
160 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.8

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The text

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

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 11:53 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLimestone97 min
Jun 5, 2:14 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDeKalb, Jackson, Lauderdale, Limestone, Madison91 min
Jun 5, 1:22 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCMarion53 min
Jun 5, 5:10 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBlount, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne and 5 more95 min
Jun 5, 6:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBaldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts and 54 more3 hr
Jun 4, 7:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Blount, Campbell, Carter, Claiborne, Cocke and 17 more6 hr
Jun 4, 7:24 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Cannon, Carroll, Cheatham, Clay, Cumberland and 28 more8 hr
Jun 4, 9:45 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBlount, Carter, Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen and 10 more2 hr
Jun 5, 9:27 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCarroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer, Fayette and 14 more63 min
Jun 5, 10:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBenton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 15 more7 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Tennessee, 2014Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Georgia, 2014Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Alabama, 2014Every severe thunderstorm watch 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.