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Tornado Warning 44, NWS Nashville, TN

November 10, 2002Warren County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Nov 10, 2002, 5:47 PM CST for Warren County, Tennessee. It was in force for 43 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Nov 10, 2002, 5:47 PM CST (23:47 UTC)
Expired: Nov 10, 2002, 6:30 PM CST
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Warren County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 10, 3:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr
Nov 10, 4:50 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 92 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: 1061 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 668 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 408 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 410 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.2
Supercell composite: 9.5

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KOHX 102347
TORBNA
TNC177-110030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
547 PM CST SUN NOV 10 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WARREN COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MCMINNVILLE

* UNTIL 630 PM CST

* AT 545 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MCMINNVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  5 MILES SOUTH OF MCMINNVILLE AT 555 PM CST

DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME. TAKE COVER
NOW. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. MOVE TO A BASEMENT...AN
INTERIOR ROOM OR HALLWAY...ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.

&&

LAT...LON 3565 8593 3547 8594 3558 8557 3574 8563

$$

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, 12:12 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Houston, Montgomery	63 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

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.