Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2015
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 423
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 14, 2015, 2:46 PM EDT for Cherokee County, Clay County, North Carolina; 66 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 14, 2015, 2:46 PM EDT (18:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2015, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 68 counties
Cherokee County, NC, Clay County, NC, Anderson County, TN, Bedford County, TN, Bledsoe County, TN, Blount County, TN, Bradley County, TN, Campbell County, TN, Cannon County, TN, Cheatham County, TN, Claiborne County, TN, Clay County, TN, Cocke County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Cumberland County, TN, Davidson County, TN, DeKalb County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Fentress County, TN, Franklin County, TN, Giles County, TN, Grainger County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Hamblen County, TN, Hamilton County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Jefferson County, TN, Knox County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Lincoln County, TN, Loudon County, TN, Macon County, TN, Marion County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN, McMinn County, TN, Meigs County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Moore County, TN, Morgan County, TN, Overton County, TN, Perry County, TN, Pickett County, TN, Polk County, TN, Putnam County, TN, Rhea County, TN, Roane County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Scott County, TN, Sequatchie County, TN, Sevier County, TN, Smith County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Union County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN, Wayne County, TN, White County, TN, Williamson County, TN, Wilson County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:45 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
- 10%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
45 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 2:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Morgan | 31 min |
| Jul 14, 2:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Jackson, Overton, Putnam | 39 min |
| Jul 14, 2:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Fentress, Pickett | 28 min |
| Jul 14, 3:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Fentress | 26 min |
| Jul 14, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Anderson, Campbell, Knox, Union | 55 min |
| Jul 14, 3:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cocke, Jefferson | 67 min |
| Jul 14, 3:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Morgan, Roane | 48 min |
| Jul 14, 3:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Morgan | 15 min |
| Jul 14, 3:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Williamson | 17 min |
| Jul 14, 3:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Hickman, Humphreys | 37 min |
| Jul 14, 3:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Williamson | 29 min |
| Jul 14, 3:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Morgan | 40 min |
| Jul 14, 3:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Smith, Trousdale, Wilson | 23 min |
| Jul 14, 3:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Williamson | 34 min |
| Jul 14, 3:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland, Overton, Putnam, White | 33 min |
| Jul 14, 3:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cumberland, Putnam, White | 27 min |
| Jul 14, 3:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Loudon, Morgan, Roane | 66 min |
| Jul 14, 3:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Rutherford, Williamson | 34 min |
| Jul 14, 3:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman, Humphreys, Perry | 32 min |
| Jul 14, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson | 30 min |
| Jul 14, 4:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon, DeKalb, Rutherford, Smith, Wilson | 29 min |
| Jul 14, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland, Putnam, White | 49 min |
| Jul 14, 4:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon, DeKalb, Warren, White | 27 min |
| Jul 14, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Bledsoe, McMinn, Meigs, Rhea | 61 min |
| Jul 14, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland, Putnam, Van Buren, White | 46 min |
| Jul 14, 4:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Blount, Loudon, McMinn, Monroe | 56 min |
| Jul 14, 4:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon, Rutherford, Wilson | 25 min |
| Jul 14, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Blount, Loudon, Sevier | 54 min |
| Jul 14, 4:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb, Van Buren, Warren, White | 34 min |
| Jul 14, 4:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon, Warren | 21 min |
| Jul 14, 4:57 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cannon, Warren | 13 min |
| Jul 14, 4:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Cherokee | 47 min |
| Jul 14, 5:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Coffee, Grundy, Van Buren, Warren | 48 min |
| Jul 14, 5:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cherokee | 67 min |
| Jul 14, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Giles, Marshall, Maury | 34 min |
| Jul 14, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Bledsoe, Bradley, Hamilton, Marion, Meigs, Rhea and 1 more | 63 min |
| Jul 14, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cherokee, Clay | 46 min |
| Jul 14, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Lincoln, Moore | 40 min |
| Jul 14, 5:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Coffee, Grundy | 35 min |
| Jul 14, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Franklin | 37 min |
| Jul 14, 6:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Lincoln | 31 min |
| Jul 14, 6:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cherokee, Clay | 30 min |
| Jul 14, 6:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wayne | 42 min |
| Jul 14, 6:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cherokee | 37 min |
| Jul 14, 6:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Bradley, Hamilton, Marion, Sequatchie | 48 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 9:31 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Ballard, Barren, Boone, Bourbon, Boyle and 60 more | 59 min |
| Jul 13, 10:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Boone, Bourbon, Boyle, Bracken, Breckinridge and 54 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 14, 12:47 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Boone, Bourbon, Bracken, Bullitt, Campbell and 19 more | 58 min |
| Jul 14, 3:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Anderson, Boyle, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Casey and 25 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 14, 5:35 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Boyle, Casey, Garrard, Green, Hardin and 12 more | 85 min |
| Jul 14, 6:35 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bell, Clay, Jackson, Knox, Laurel, McCreary and 3 more | 55 min |
| Jul 14, 12:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Boyd, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Carter and 10 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 14, 1:14 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Clinton, Cumberland, McCreary, Monroe, Simpson | 91 min |
| Jul 14, 3:12 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant and 11 more | 93 min |
| Jul 14, 3:41 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Calloway, Carlisle, Clinton, Fulton, Graves and 6 more | 94 min |
| Jul 14, 4:37 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant and 11 more | 83 min |
| Jul 14, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bath, Bell, Bourbon, Boyle, Breathitt and 52 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 13, 8:06 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Alexander, Anson, Burke, Cabarrus, Caswell and 23 more | 84 min |
| Jul 13, 10:34 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anson, Chatham, Durham, Franklin, Granville, Harnett and 12 more | 86 min |
| Jul 14, 4:55 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Clay | 65 min |
| Jul 14, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Graham, Jackson, Macon, Swain, Transylvania | 7 hr |
| Jul 14, 6:10 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alleghany, Ashe, Caswell, Rockingham, Stokes, Surry | 2 hr |
| Jul 14, 6:24 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Jackson, Macon and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 14, 6:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Caswell, Rockingham, Stokes, Surry | 4 hr |
| Jul 13, 8:38 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bledsoe, Clay, Cumberland, Fentress, Grundy, Hamilton and 10 more | 97 min |
| Jul 14, 1:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 15 more | 7 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Tennessee, 2015Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Carolina, 2015Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2015
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.