Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Feb 16, 2001, 1:52 PM CST for Franklin County, Tennessee. It was in force for 48 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 16, 2001, 1:52 PM CST (19:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 2001, 2:40 PM CST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Franklin County, TN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 2:15 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 52 M | Huntland, TN | Spotter reported 60 mph wind gust. |
| Feb 16, 2:30 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Winchester, TN | Public reported a few trees down off of Sinking Cove Road near Little Cow Creek. |
| Feb 16, 2:35 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Sewanee, TN | Local law enforcement reported a power line down at Sewanee. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 1:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 802 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 80 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -98 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KOHX 162000 TORBNA TNC051-162040- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 152 PM CST FRI FEB 16 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN FRANKLIN COUNTY IN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 240 PM CST * AT 148 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO ACROSS NORTHERN MADISON COUNTY ALABAMA...NORTH OF HUNTSVILLE. THIS STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... HUNTLAND AROUND 215 PM ROWE GAP AROUND 220 PM SHERWOOD AND ANDERSON AT 230 PM NUMEROUS REPORTS OF WALL CLOUDS HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN MADISON COUNTY ALABAMA WITH THIS SEVERE STORM. IN ADDITION...GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM IN THE PAST 20 MINUTES. IF YOU LIVE IN SOUTHERN FRANKLIN COUNTY...ESPECIALLY FROM HUNTLAND TO SHERWOOD SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. A TORNADO WATCH+ REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CST FRIDAY EVENING FOR TENNESSEE. $$ JDG/JBW LAT...LON 3526 8633 3500 8632 3500 8589 3532 8601
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 7:34 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence, Lewis, Lincoln, Marshall, Maury and 1 more | 9 hr |
| Feb 16, 7:34 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Benton, Dickson, Hickman, Houston, Humphreys, Perry and 1 more | 9 hr |
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.