Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at May 31, 2001, 7:08 PM CDT for Robertson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 37 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
- May 31, 2001, 7:08 PM CDT (00:08 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2001, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Robertson County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 7:25 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Barren Plain, TN | EMA reported trees down. Newspaper article reported trees were down at Orlinda, Adams, Coopertown, and along parts of Kinney Road. Several of these trees blocked roadways and downed power lines. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 50 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
- 170 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1007 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 277 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 400 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KOHX 010009 TORBNA TNC147-010045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 708 PM CDT THU MAY 31 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN ROBERTSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 706 PM CDT...A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO OVER ADAMS...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... RURAL NORTHERN ROBERTSON COUNTY AT 720 PM CDT IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF A TORNADO...DAMAGING HAIL AND STRONG WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED. GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW $$ LAT...LON 3658 8719 3646 8703 3670 8669 3686 8688
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon, Wilson | 33 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.