A squall line of severe thunderstorms pushed east across southern middle Tennessee. Trees were knocked down in Moore County as a result of strong thunderstorm winds along the line.
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A squall line of severe thunderstorms pushed east across southern middle Tennessee. Trees were knocked down in Moore County as a result of strong thunderstorm winds along the line.
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 15, 11:58 PM CST, 39 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Huntsville AL 1158 PM CST Sat Feb 15 2025 ...New AVIATION... .NEAR TERM... (Rest of tonight) Issued at 743 PM CST Sat Feb 15 2025 [UPDATE 915 PM] A Tornado Watch has been issued for all of northern Alabama and southern middle Tennessee and is in effect through 4 AM CST Sunday. Make sure to stay weather aware and have multiple ways to receive warnings tonight! Currently some light showers are being shown by radar out ahead of the main line of storms that extends from Louisiana up through western Tennessee and Kentucky. Both the soundings from Jackson, MS and Birmingham, AL show a capping inversion aloft (especially in JAN's). The instability is not as robust in BMX's sounding; however, the instability may increase as the low level jet increases tonight. For our area, there is ample bulk shear and Hi- Res guidance also indicates that there may be a narrow corridor of sufficient surface instability (and increased low-level lapse rates) along and west of I-65 tonight. Although, with cold air damming occurring to our east over the southern Appalachians, it seems more likely that instability will be a bit more limited over northeast Alabama overnight. This will be monitored over the next few hours to see if this holds true. Overall, the forecast has not changed too much, as we are still anticipating a line of severe storms to move through the region this evening and overnight. Damaging winds, heavy downpours, as well as the potential for a few tornadoes are the main threats. With an inch or less of rain forecast with the fast-moving line of storms, nuisance flooding may be a concern (especially with the rains we've received recently). Although, we are not expecting widespread flooding at this time. We are going to keep an eye on our rivers with this rainfall as well as downstream flow, as a couple of our rivers remain in flood from this past week. As for timing of the storms tonight, Hi-Res models suggest that our current thinking (and most likely time) of the line moving through our area of 10 PM over northwest Alabama and moving east of our area between 3-4 AM. Make sure to have multiple ways to receive warnings tonight, especially ones that will wake you up! && .SHORT TERM... (Sunday through Monday) Issued at 101 PM CST Sat Feb 15 2025 The line of storms will exit the area before sunrise Sunday morning. Gusty winds of 20-30 mph will remain during the morning before diminishing by around lunchtime. A colder and drier airmass advects in from the NW on Sunday bringing in another shot of cooler air into the TN Valley. Afternoon temperatures will only be in the upper 40s with overnight lows dipping down into the mid 20s. Given the breezy conditions during the day, a flash freeze overnight is not expected. As the upper level trough axis associated with the storms Saturday night pushes further east of the forecast area, a more zonal flow pattern sets up across the Southeast to start the new work week. Dry and below normal conditions continue on Monday with highs only in the mid 40s and overnight lows once again dropping down into the mid 20s. These temperatures are approximately 10 degrees below the climatological normals for this time of year. && .LONG TERM... (Tuesday through Friday) Issued at 238 AM CST Sat Feb 15 2025 On Tuesday morning, an area of upper low pressure should be exiting to the east from the Canadian Maritimes. West and south of this low, a generally zonal upper flow should be in place over much of the CONUS, with weak troughing across the western states. At this time, an upper level system heading southward across Alberta will result in an area of low pressure forming over the upper Mississippi Valley on Wednesday. This system will bring more inclement weather to the Tennessee Valley for the midweek. Before then, a strong and cold surface high over Saskatchewan with sea level pressure in the lower 1050s mb will exert its influence to the SE, and continue a chilly trend across this area. With more clouds moving in as the upper system forms, more limited direct sun will result in highs only in the lower 50s, a bit cooler than average readings around 58 degrees. These lower 50s will be the warmest temperature of this period, as more colder air is forecast to arrive for the mid and latter half of the week. The upper system consolidating over the eastern plains and western Great Lakes will bring a wintry mix across the area beginning Tue night. The latest grids, based mainly on the NBM has a rain/snow mix for over our Tennessee counties into NW Alabama, with a cold rain more to the SE. On Wednesday, the mix of rain/snow will continue, over similar areas of southern middle Tennessee to NW Alabama, with showers more to the SE. With clouds, good precipitation chances and cold air advection becoming more dominant, high temperatures for the mid week will be colder, ranging from the mid/upper 30s for our TN group and NW AL, with low/mid 40s more towards Marshall, Cullman and southern DeKalb counties. The system should exit to the east Wed night with precipitation tapering off from west to east. Went with a faster track of the precip ending. Total snow amounts should remain under an inch over our north and western areas, with lesser amounts to the SE. Precip ending will help limit snow accumulations, as low temperatures plummet into the mid/upper teens before daybreak Thursday. With clouds slowly decreasing and a lower 1040s mb surface high building SE over the eastern Great Plains, it will very chilly day with highs only in the upper 20s to lower 30s. A NW-N winds of 5-15 mph will produce wind chill values in the teens to lower 20s. Even colder Thur night with lows in the lower teens. High temperatures to close out the work week should only rise into the mid 30s to around 40 under partly cloudy skies. && .AVIATION... (06Z TAFS) Issued at 1158 PM CST Sat Feb 15 2025 A quasi-linear convective line (QLCS) was moving eastward across the forecast area, now between KMSL and KHSV. This line should be impacting KDCU within the next 10 minutes, then KHSV 15-30 min. Strong to damaging wind gusts over 50kt are possible with this line, along with a possible tornado. The QLCS should be positioned east of NE AL by 10Z. A tight pressure gradient around low pressure over KY will keep low-level wind shear in for another hour at KMSL, and a few hours at KHSV. Winds otherwise will remain strong in the 20-30kt range gradually lowering as we go through the day. Winds should veer from the S-SW to the west after daybreak, then W-NW winds should fall below 10kt after sunset. IFR CIGs are expected with the QLCS and an hour or so afterwards, then become MVFR for the remainder of the overnight into the late morning. VFR CIGs are forecast this afternoon and evening. && .HUN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AL...Wind Advisory until noon CST Sunday for ALZ001>010-016. TN...Wind Advisory until noon CST Sunday for TNZ076-096-097. && NEAR TERM...26 SHORT TERM....GH LONG TERM....RSB AVIATION...RSB
Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Huntsville AL
1137 PM CST Sat Feb 15 2025
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1112 PM Tstm Wnd Dmg 1 ENE Tuscumbia 34.73N 87.70W
02/15/2025 Colbert AL Fire Dept/Rescue
Reports of multiple trees and powerlines
down on East 6th street near N Commons and
Jefferson street. Transformers also blown in
the vicinity. Time estimated based on radar.
&&Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Huntsville AL
1210 AM CST Sun Feb 16 2025
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1204 AM Tstm Wnd Gst 4 WNW Mooresville 34.65N 86.95W
02/16/2025 M52 MPH Limestone AL ASOS
&&Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Huntsville AL
1212 AM CST Sun Feb 16 2025
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1205 AM Tstm Wnd Gst 4 NW Rogersville 34.87N 87.33W
02/16/2025 M50 MPH Lauderdale AL Broadcast Media
Tennessee Valley Weather report.
&&Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Huntsville AL
1214 AM CST Sun Feb 16 2025
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1212 AM Tstm Wnd Gst 4 NW Madison 34.75N 86.79W
02/16/2025 M62 MPH Limestone AL Amateur Radio
Measured at County Line Road and Highway 72.
&&Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Huntsville AL
1215 AM CST Sun Feb 16 2025
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1209 AM Tstm Wnd Gst 4 WNW Mooresville 34.65N 86.95W
02/16/2025 M61 MPH Limestone AL ASOS
&&Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Huntsville AL
1228 AM CST Sun Feb 16 2025
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1226 AM Tstm Wnd Dmg 1 E Tuscumbia 34.73N 87.69W
02/16/2025 Colbert AL Fire Dept/Rescue
3 large trees down with live wires and road
blockage on Davis Court. Time estimated by
radar.
&&The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 48 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:39 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A tree was knocked down on Booneville Highway.
Trees were knocked down on Lynchburg Highway between Lynchburg and Tullahoma.
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