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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Nashville, TN

November 24, 2001Coffee County, Franklin County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Nov 24, 2001, 1:39 PM CST for Coffee County, Franklin 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: Nov 24, 2001, 1:39 PM CST (19:39 UTC)
Expired: Nov 24, 2001, 2:15 PM CST
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Coffee County, TN, Franklin County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:39 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
Nov 24, 1:45 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 55 E	Tullahoma, TN	Law enforcement reported a few trees and several road signs blown down over southwest portions of Tullahoma.

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
Nov 24, 11:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 101 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.

421 
WFUS54 KOHX 241941
TORBNA
TNC031-051-242015-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  COFFEE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MANCHESTER
  WESTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY IN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 215 PM CST

* AT 136 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
TORNADO ALONG THE MOORE FRANKLIN COUNTY LINE...OR ABOUT 13 MILES 
EAST OF LYNCHBURG OR 10 MILES WEST OF ESTILL SPRINGS...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  TULLAHOMA AT 155 PM CST
  MANCHESTER AT 205 PM CST

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM CST
SATURDAY AFTERNOON FOR TENNESSEE.
$$
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, 1:00 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Lincoln	30 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

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.