Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Feb 25, 2001, 12:35 AM CST for Maury County, Tennessee. It was in force for 25 min. 2 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 25, 2001, 12:35 AM CST (06:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 25, 2001, 1:00 AM CST
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Maury County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 12:40 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 52 M | Columbia, TN | Spotter reported 60 mph wind gust. |
| Feb 25, 12:40 AM CST | Tornado F0 | Mt Pleasant, TN | Law enforecement reported trees blown down. |
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 24, 11:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 738 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 355 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 498 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
129 WFUS54 KOHX 250637 TORBNA TNC119-250700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1235 AM CST SUN FEB 25 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN MAURY COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF COLUMBIA * UNTIL 100 AM CST * AT 1229 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 8 MILES WEST OF MOUNT PLEASANT...OR ABOUT 13 MILES EAST OF HOHENWALD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... OVER MOUNT PLEASANT AT 1245 AM CST 7 MILES SOUTH OF COLUMBIA AT 100 AM CST A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CST SUNDAY MORNING FOR TENNESSEE. IF YOU LIVE IN MOUT PLEASSANT SEEK SHELTER NOW. $$ LAT...LON 3563 8745 3542 8731 3547 8694 3566 8694 JDG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 10:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Stewart | 30 min |
| Feb 24, 10:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Montgomery, Stewart | 30 min |
| Feb 24, 10:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton, Humphreys, Perry | 37 min |
| Feb 24, 11:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Hickman | 33 min |
| Feb 24, 11:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham | 33 min |
| Feb 24, 11:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Houston | 33 min |
| Feb 24, 11:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman, Humphreys, Lewis, Perry | 36 min |
| Feb 24, 11:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Robertson | 40 min |
| Feb 24, 11:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Houston, Montgomery | 40 min |
| Feb 24, 11:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Hickman, Maury, Williamson | 42 min |
| Feb 25, 12:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson | 36 min |
| Feb 25, 12:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lawrence | 40 min |
| Feb 25, 12:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Robertson | 23 min |
| Feb 25, 12:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Lewis, Maury | 32 min |
| Feb 25, 12:53 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Williamson | 27 min |
| Feb 25, 12:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Marshall | 47 min |
| Feb 25, 1:08 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Rutherford | 22 min |
| Feb 25, 1:15 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Wilson | 25 min |
| Feb 25, 1:30 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Smith | 30 min |
| Feb 25, 1:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Lincoln, Moore | 41 min |
| Feb 25, 1:41 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Clay, Jackson, Macon | 29 min |
| Feb 25, 2:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Coffee, Franklin | 33 min |
| Feb 25, 2:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Grundy, Warren | 38 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.