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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Huntsville, AL
NWS Huntsville, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 2016, 8:27 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Moore County, Tennessee. It was in force for 33 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 2016, 8:27 PM CDT (01:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2016, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Huntsville, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Lincoln County, TN, Moore County, TN
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 2167 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1438 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Huntsville, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 8, 6:18 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 6:18 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
737 PM CDT FRI JUL 8 2016
TNZ076-096-097-090115-
MOORE TN-FRANKLIN TN-LINCOLN TN-
737 PM CDT FRI JUL 8 2016
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR MOORE...FRANKLIN AND EAST CENTRAL
LINCOLN COUNTIES UNTIL 815 PM CDT...
AT 737 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER
LYNCHBURG...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
PEA SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WINCHESTER...LYNCHBURG...DECHERD...ESTILL SPRINGS...COWAN...TIMS FORD
LAKE...HARMONY...ALTO...SMITHLAND AND LEXIE CROSSROADS.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
STRONG GUSTY WINDS WILL BE CAPABLE OF KNOCKING DOWN SMALL TREE
LIMBS...ALONG WITH OTHER SMALL UNSECURED ITEMS. SEEK SAFE SHELTER
UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED.
&&
LAT...LON 3534 8603 3531 8600 3532 8598 3530 8594
3500 8597 3514 8645 3522 8645 3532 8642
3534 8641
TIME...MOT...LOC 0037Z 285DEG 18KT 3525 8638Special weather statement, Jul 8, 8:15 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
815 PM CDT FRI JUL 8 2016
TNZ076-096-097-090215-
MOORE TN-FRANKLIN TN-LINCOLN TN-
815 PM CDT FRI JUL 8 2016
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR MOORE...FRANKLIN AND LINCOLN
COUNTIES UNTIL 915 PM CDT...
AT 812 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A BAND OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS CENTERED NEAR PETERSBURG...OR 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF
FAYETTEVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE
ALSO DEVELOPING TO THE WEST IN GILES AND SOUTHERN MARSHALL COUNTIES.
WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS
CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WINCHESTER...FAYETTEVILLE...LYNCHBURG...DECHERD...ESTILL SPRINGS...
COWAN...HUNTLAND...PETERSBURG...SEWANEE AND TIMS FORD LAKE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS...AND MAY
LEAD TO MINOR FLOODING ON ROADS AND IN LOW LYING AREAS. DO NOT DRIVE
YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS.
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE SEVERAL MILES AWAY FROM THE PARENT THUNDERSTORM.
SEEK A SAFE SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.
&&
LAT...LON 3530 8626 3522 8587 3499 8587 3500 8684
3526 8683 3525 8675 3531 8668 3533 8660
3535 8660
TIME...MOT...LOC 0112Z 288DEG 18KT 3524 8666Special weather statement, Jul 8, 8:15 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
815 PM CDT FRI JUL 8 2016
TNZ076-096-097-090215-
MOORE TN-FRANKLIN TN-LINCOLN TN-
815 PM CDT FRI JUL 8 2016
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR MOORE...FRANKLIN AND LINCOLN
COUNTIES UNTIL 915 PM CDT...
AT 813 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR
PETERSBURG...OR 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF FAYETTEVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 20
MPH.
WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WINCHESTER...FAYETTEVILLE...LYNCHBURG...DECHERD...ESTILL SPRINGS...
COWAN...HUNTLAND...PETERSBURG...SEWANEE AND TIMS FORD LAKE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY
LEAD TO MINOR FLOODING ON ROADS AND IN LOW LYING AREAS. DO NOT DRIVE
YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS.
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE SEVERAL MILES AWAY FROM THE PARENT THUNDERSTORM.
SEEK A SAFE SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.
&&
LAT...LON 3530 8626 3522 8587 3499 8587 3500 8684
3526 8683 3525 8675 3531 8668 3533 8660
3535 8660
TIME...MOT...LOC 0113Z 288DEG 18KT 3524 8666
KULAThe office that day
Everything else NWS Huntsville, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 11:22 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Marshall | 38 min |
| Jul 9, 1:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Marshall | 41 min |
| Jul 9, 1:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | DeKalb | 23 min |
| Jul 9, 2:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | DeKalb | 23 min |
| Jul 9, 6:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Jackson | 23 min |
| Jul 9, 6:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | DeKalb | 33 min |
| Jul 8, 7:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Lincoln, Moore | 50 min |
| Jul 8, 7:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Franklin, Moore | 38 min |
| Jul 8, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Franklin, Moore | 33 min |
| Jul 8, 8:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Franklin, Lincoln, Moore | 60 min |
| Jul 8, 8:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Franklin | 32 min |
| Jul 8, 9:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Lincoln | 44 min |
| Jul 8, 9:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Lincoln, Moore | 60 min |
| Jul 8, 10:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Franklin, Moore | 51 min |
| Jul 9, 6:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Lincoln | 27 min |
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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.