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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Nashville, TN

November 24, 2001Lincoln County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Nov 24, 2001, 1:00 PM CST for Lincoln County, Tennessee. It was in force for 30 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 24, 2001, 1:00 PM CST (19:00 UTC)
Expired: Nov 24, 2001, 1:30 PM CST
In force: 30 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 19:04 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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Nov 24, 11:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 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: 6 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -158 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 649 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 378 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 383 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

999 
WFUS54 KOHX 241903
TORBNA
TNC103-241930-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
100 PM CST SAT NOV 24 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 130 PM CST

* AT 1256 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO BETWEEN TONEY ALABAMA AND COLDWATER. THE STORM WAS RACING 
TO THE NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. 

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
TAFT AT 105 PM CST
FAYETTEVILLE AT 115 PM CST
MULBERRY AT 125 PM CST

HEAVY RAIN MAY MAKE THIS TORNADO INVISIBLE. IF YOU LIVE IN SOUTHERN 
LINCOLN COUNTY TAKE COVER NOW

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM CST
SATURDAY AFTERNOON FOR TENNESSEE.
$$
LAT...LON 3500 8687 3500 8644 3521 8641 3533 8661
JDG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 24, 7:03 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton	27 min
Nov 24, 9:08 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Montgomery, Robertson	52 min
Nov 24, 10:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson, Houston, Humphreys	45 min
Nov 24, 11:40 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham	35 min
Nov 24, 12:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Robertson	23 min
Nov 24, 1:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Williamson	24 min
Nov 24, 1:27 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Moore	18 min
Nov 24, 1:39 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Coffee, Franklin	36 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.