Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2014
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 232
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman, Lawrence, Lewis, Perry, Wayne | 68 min |
| Jun 5, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Lauderdale | 51 min |
| Jun 5, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Houston, Humphreys | 53 min |
| Jun 5, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Jackson, Marshall | 36 min |
| Jun 5, 3:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale | 33 min |
| Jun 5, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles | 33 min |
| Jun 5, 4:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone | 26 min |
| Jun 5, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone | 35 min |
| Jun 5, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | DeKalb | 9 min |
| Jun 5, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 23 min |
| Jun 5, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Morgan | 33 min |
| Jun 5, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Cullman, Jackson, Madison, Marshall, Morgan | 30 min |
| Jun 5, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Chattooga, Floyd, Gordon | 49 min |
| Jun 5, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Cullman, DeKalb, Jackson, Madison, Marshall | 33 min |
| Jun 5, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount, Etowah, St. Clair | 44 min |
| Jun 5, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne, Etowah | 60 min |
| Jun 5, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | DeKalb, Jackson | 29 min |
| Jun 5, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Walker, Whitfield | 59 min |
| Jun 5, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd, Haralson, Polk | 52 min |
| Jun 5, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Floyd, Gordon | 36 min |
| Jun 5, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Hall | 42 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 11:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Limestone | 97 min |
| Jun 5, 2:14 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | DeKalb, Jackson, Lauderdale, Limestone, Madison | 91 min |
| Jun 5, 1:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Marion | 53 min |
| Jun 5, 5:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blount, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne and 5 more | 95 min |
| Jun 5, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts and 54 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 4, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Blount, Campbell, Carter, Claiborne, Cocke and 17 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 4, 7:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Cannon, Carroll, Cheatham, Clay, Cumberland and 28 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 4, 9:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blount, Carter, Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen and 10 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 5, 9:27 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer, Fayette and 14 more | 63 min |
| Jun 5, 10:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 15 more | 7 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.