Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 22, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Oct 24, 2001, 8:10 PM CDT for Rutherford County, Tennessee. It was in force for 35 min. 6 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
- Oct 24, 2001, 8:10 PM CDT (01:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 24, 2001, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rutherford County, TN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 8:15 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 M | Smyrna, TN | Spotter measured winds of 69 mph. |
| Oct 24, 8:15 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Smyrna, TN | Spotter reported dime size hail. |
| Oct 24, 8:20 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | La Vergne, TN | Spotter reported a tornado, but it did no damage. |
| Oct 24, 8:20 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Smyrna, TN | Spotter reported quarter size hail near the Ponderosa Restaurant. |
| Oct 24, 8:26 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 57 E | Murfreesboro, TN | Spotter reported a tree 6 inches in diameter was blown down. |
| Oct 24, 8:45 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Murfreesboro, TN | Spotter reported dime size hail. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 36 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
- 659 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1147 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 245 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 385 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 5.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
151 WFUS54 KOHX 250111 TORBNA TNC149-250145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 810 PM CDT WED OCT 24 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN RUTHERFORD COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...SMYRNA...MURFREESBORO...LA VERGNE * UNTIL 845 PM CDT * AT 806 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR LA VERGNE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... 3 MILES NORTH OF MURFREESBORO...4 MILES SOUTH OF WALTERHILL AT 830 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO IS FORMING. TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM OR HALLWAY ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR TENNESSEE. $$ LAT...LON 3604 8664 3586 8669 3575 8619 3597 8613 JLM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman, Perry | 50 min |
| Oct 24, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Williamson | 49 min |
| Oct 24, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lewis, Wayne | 62 min |
| Oct 24, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Sumner | 38 min |
| Oct 24, 7:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Williamson | 39 min |
| Oct 24, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Maury | 53 min |
| Oct 24, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wilson | 35 min |
| Oct 24, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Macon, Smith, Trousdale | 44 min |
| Oct 24, 8:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles | 36 min |
| Oct 24, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Clay, Jackson | 55 min |
| Oct 24, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall | 50 min |
| Oct 24, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lincoln, Moore | 55 min |
| Oct 24, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb, Overton, Putnam | 53 min |
| Oct 24, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Pickett | 53 min |
| Oct 24, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon, Rutherford | 34 min |
| Oct 24, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Coffee, Warren | 50 min |
| Oct 24, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Franklin | 54 min |
| Oct 24, 9:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Coffee, Grundy | 36 min |
| Oct 24, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland, Van Buren, White | 48 min |
| Oct 24, 9:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Fentress | 51 min |
| Oct 24, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Franklin | 28 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.