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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Nashville, TN

November 10, 2002Houston County, Montgomery County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Nov 10, 2002, 12:12 AM CST for Houston County, Montgomery County, Tennessee. It was in force for 63 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: Nov 10, 2002, 12:12 AM CST (06:12 UTC)
Expired: Nov 10, 2002, 1:15 AM CST
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Houston County, TN, Montgomery County, TN

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Nov 10, 12:50 AM CST	Tornado F0	Clarksville, TN	The first tornado was rated F0 (40-72 mph) and briefly touched down about 1.2 miles east of the I-24 interchange on Highway 76. Trees were trees twisted and snapped.
Nov 10, 1:00 AM CST	Tornado F1	Port Royal, TN	The husband, Dennis Tooby and his wife, Karen Tooby, were killed when their mobile home was blown off its foundation at the 3400 block of Port Royal Rd. Mr. Tooby was a Australian national and a welder. Mrs. Tooby taught first grade at Hazelwood Elementary S

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 9, 11:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 90 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1360 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 286 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 401 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 9, 11:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton	36 min
Nov 9, 11:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Houston, Humphreys	39 min
Nov 10, 12:47 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Benton, Humphreys, Perry	58 min
Nov 10, 1:30 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Robertson	45 min
Nov 10, 1:41 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Robertson	34 min
Nov 10, 1:45 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton, Humphreys	45 min
Nov 10, 1:50 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Sumner	40 min
Nov 10, 2:03 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson	57 min
Nov 10, 2:49 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Maury, Williamson	26 min
Nov 10, 3:11 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Davidson, Rutherford, Williamson	59 min
Nov 10, 3:26 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Wilson	64 min
Nov 10, 3:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence, Wayne	60 min
Nov 10, 3:42 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Macon, Trousdale	48 min
Nov 10, 3:56 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	DeKalb, Smith	64 min
Nov 10, 4:08 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Putnam	37 min
Nov 10, 4:10 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Lawrence	50 min
Nov 10, 4:16 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Giles, Lawrence, Marshall, Maury	59 min
Nov 10, 4:20 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Overton	40 min
Nov 10, 4:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford	41 min
Nov 10, 5:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Fentress	52 min
Nov 10, 5:15 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Bedford, Coffee	45 min
Nov 10, 5:25 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Bedford, Marshall	35 min
Nov 10, 5:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery, Stewart	36 min
Nov 10, 5:39 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Giles	51 min
Nov 10, 5:47 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Warren	43 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.