Cold/Wind Chill, Moore
- When
- February 15, 1:00 AM CST to 8:00 AM CST
- Where
- Moore forecast zone
- Reported by
- AWOS
- Coordinates
- 35.285, -86.359 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Wind chill values dropped into the range of zero to 5 below.
Cold in Tennessee, February 15, 2015
An Arctic cold front pushed south through the Tennessee Valley on the evening of the 14th. Brisk north winds of 15 to 25 mph with a few gusts near 30 mph were reported.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 3 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS HUN wrote it up.
An Arctic cold front pushed south through the Tennessee Valley on the evening of the 14th. Brisk north winds of 15 to 25 mph with a few gusts near 30 mph were reported. Temperatures plunged from the 50s on the 14th into the teens on the morning of the 15th. Wind chills dropped into the zero to 5 below zero range from around 2 am to 8 am.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Feb 14, 11:03 PM CST, 1 hour 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 14, 11:03 PM CST, 1 hour 57 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
1103 PM CST SAT FEB 14 2015
.UPDATE...
FOR 06Z TAFS
&&
.DISCUSSION...
/ISSUED 826 PM CST SAT FEB 14 2015/
THE ARCTIC COLD FRONT IS PASSING THRU THE SCOTTSBORO-HUNTSVILLE-
RUSSELLVILLE AREAS AT THIS HOUR. TEMPS DROP FROM 50 AT VINEMONT TO
30 AT TULLAHOMA (NEAR METROPOLITAN LYNCHBURG) IN SOUTHERN TN. TEMPS
DROPS SHARPLY INTO THE L20S IN NWRN TN AND TEENS NOT FAR BEHIND THAT.
GUSTS OVER 20KT WILL PERSIST THRU THE NIGHT AND WIND CHILLS WILL
BEGIN FALLING INTO THE ZERO TO 10 BELOW RANGE IN SRN TN AND NERN AL.
WE WILL MAINTAIN THE WIND CHILL ADVISORY AS IS, ALTHOUGH MUCH OF NW
AND NC AL MAY NOT REACH CRITERIA, BUT IT WILL CERTAINLY BE A DRASTIC
CHANGE FROM TODAY'S TEMPERATURES.
AK
&&
.AVIATION...
FOR 06Z TAFS... ARCTIC COLD FRONT CONTINUES TO PRESS TO THE SOUTH
WITH NORTH WINDS GUSTING AT 20-25KT. THESE WILL SUBSIDE ON SUNDAY
WITH VFR CONDITIONS FORECAST. MID AND HIGH CLOUDS WILL RETURN LATE
SUNDAY INTO SUNDAY EVENING, BUT NO PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED THRU
06Z/16.
AK
&&
.HUN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
AL...RED FLAG WARNING FROM 11 AM TO 6 PM CST SUNDAY FOR ALZ001>010-016.
WINTER STORM WATCH FROM LATE SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH LATE MONDAY NIGHT
FOR ALZ001>010-016.
WIND CHILL ADVISORY FROM 3 AM TO 9 AM CST SUNDAY FOR ALZ001>010-016.
TN...WINTER STORM WATCH FROM LATE SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH LATE MONDAY NIGHT
FOR TNZ076-096-097.
WIND CHILL ADVISORY FROM 3 AM TO 9 AM CST SUNDAY FOR TNZ076-096-097.
&&
FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE
AT WEATHER.GOV/HUNTSVILLE.Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 14, 8:39 PM CST, 4 hours 21 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 839 PM CST SAT FEB 14 2015 ALZ001>010-016-TNZ076-096-097-151100- LAUDERDALE-COLBERT-FRANKLIN AL-LAWRENCE-LIMESTONE-MADISON-MORGAN- MARSHALL-JACKSON-DEKALB-CULLMAN-MOORE-LINCOLN-FRANKLIN TN- 839 PM CST SAT FEB 14 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH ALABAMA AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT... BEHIND THE STRONG ARCTIC FRONT CROSSING THE REGION...TEMPERATURES WILL DROP FROM THE LOWER 20S BY MIDNIGHT TONIGHT INTO THE 10-20 DEGREE RANGE BY SUNDAY MORNING. COMBINED WITH NORTH WINDS OF 10 TO 15 MPH AND GUSTS TO 25 MPH...WIND CHILLS ARE EXPECTED TO FALL TO DANGEROUSLY LOW VALUES RANGING BETWEEN 5 ABOVE TO 10 BELOW ZERO. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY... AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE WILL THEN APPROACH THE REGION FROM THE SOUTHWEST BRINGING LIGHT SNOW BEGINNING SUNDAY NIGHT AND CONTINUING THROUGH MONDAY EVENING. GIVEN VERY COLD TEMPERATURES PRIOR TO THE ONSET OF THE PRECIPITATION...SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE FOR MOST OF THE REGION. A FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET MIXTURE IS POSSIBLE MONDAY AFTERNOON INTO TUESDAY MORNING. ICE ACCUMULATIONS RANGING FROM 0.10 UP TO 0.40 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE. PRECIPITATION WILL THEN TRANSITION BACK OVER TO LIGHT SNOW DURING THE DAY TUESDAY AND SHOULD REMAIN ALL SNOW TUESDAY NIGHT AND BECOME FLURRIES BY WEDNESDAY MORNING. PLEASE CONSULT THE WINTER STORM WATCH THAT IS IN EFFECT FOR SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT FOR MORE INFORMATION. THERE IS ANOTHER CHANCE FOR A RAIN/SNOW MIXTURE FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY BUT CONFIDENCE IS LOW AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL MAY BE REQUIRED BY EARLY MONDAY MORNING THROUGH TUESDAY DUE TO THE POTENTIAL WINTER WEATHER.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
3 cold/wind chill. Local standard time, as filed.
Cold/Wind Chill, Lincoln
- When
- February 15, 2:00 AM CST to 8:00 AM CST
- Where
- Lincoln forecast zone
- Reported by
- AWOS
- Coordinates
- 35.141, -86.589 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Wind chill values dropped into the range of zero to 5 below.
Cold/Wind Chill, Franklin
- When
- February 15, 3:00 AM CST to 8:00 AM CST
- Where
- Franklin forecast zone
- Reported by
- AWOS
- Coordinates
- 35.155, -86.092 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Wind chill values dropped into the range of zero to 5 below.
What these are
- Cold/Wind Chill
- Cold or wind chill below warning criteria that caused deaths, injuries or damage.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Cold in Kentucky, February 15 to 20, 2015
- Cold in New Jersey, February 15, 2015
- Extreme Cold and Cold in Pennsylvania, February 15, 2015
- Extreme Cold and Cold in Pennsylvania, February 15 to 16, 2015
- Ice Storm and Winter Storm in Arkansas, February 15 to 16, 2015
- High Wind and Strong Wind in Pennsylvania, February 15, 2015
- High Wind and Strong Wind in New Jersey, February 15, 2015
- Cold in New Jersey, February 15 to 16, 2015
- High Wind in Delaware, February 15, 2015
- Strong Wind in New York, February 15, 2015
- High Wind in New York, February 15, 2015
- Extreme Cold and Cold in New York, February 15 to 16, 2015
More
Every storm in Tennessee in 2015Every state in 2015This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, February 2015
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 556035, 556033, 556036.