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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Nashville, TN

July 5, 2001Lincoln County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Jul 5, 2001, 11:54 AM CDT for Lincoln County, Tennessee. It was in force for 36 min. 1 report 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: Jul 5, 2001, 11:54 AM CDT (16:54 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2001, 12:30 PM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Lincoln County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:56 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 was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 5, 12:00 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	West Portion, TN	Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down near Highway 274 in the western part of the county.

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
Jul 5, 10:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 110 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1166 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -73 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 677 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 106 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS54 KOHX 051654
TORBNA

TNC103-051730-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1154 AM CDT THU JUL 5 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  LINCOLN COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF FAYETTEVILLE

* UNTIL 1230 PM CDT

* AT 1152 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 12 MILES WEST OF FAYETTEVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR FAYETTEVILLE AROUND 1210 PM CDT

THIS TORNADO IS WRAPPED IN RAIN - DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU CAN SEE IT OR
HEAR IT! GO TO A SAFE PLACE AND TAKE COVER NOW!

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFE?CT UNTIL 400 PM CDT
THURSDAY AFTERNOON FOR TENNESSEE.
$$
MAR
LAT...LON 3529 8678 3515 8691 3485 8649 3502 8632

The office that day

Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 5, 9:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Montgomery, Stewart	43 min
Jul 5, 9:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Robertson, Sumner	45 min
Jul 5, 9:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Dickson	39 min
Jul 5, 9:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Houston	39 min
Jul 5, 9:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson	30 min
Jul 5, 9:52 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Davidson, Sumner	23 min
Jul 5, 9:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Dickson	46 min
Jul 5, 9:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Houston	46 min
Jul 5, 10:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Sumner, Wilson	29 min
Jul 5, 10:09 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Wilson	21 min
Jul 5, 10:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson, Hickman, Williamson	44 min
Jul 5, 10:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford	36 min
Jul 5, 10:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wilson	31 min
Jul 5, 10:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Marshall, Maury	47 min
Jul 5, 10:47 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Hickman, Maury, Williamson	23 min
Jul 5, 10:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lewis, Perry, Wayne	24 min
Jul 5, 11:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Williamson	39 min
Jul 5, 11:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Marshall	27 min
Jul 5, 11:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence, Lewis, Perry, Wayne	40 min
Jul 5, 11:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford	20 min
Jul 5, 11:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Lincoln	16 min
Jul 5, 11:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles	15 min
Jul 5, 12:00 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Lawrence, Wayne	3 hr
Jul 5, 12:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford	23 min
Jul 5, 12:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles	21 min
Jul 5, 12:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Wayne	3 hr
Jul 5, 12:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Giles	3 hr
Jul 5, 3:00 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Lawrence	3 hr
Jul 5, 3:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Montgomery, Robertson	42 min
Jul 5, 4:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson	40 min
Jul 5, 4:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham	40 min
Jul 5, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson, Houston	40 min
Jul 5, 6:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Pickett	24 min

Nearby

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.