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Tornado Warning 102, NWS Nashville, TN

July 28, 2003Cheatham County, Montgomery County, Robertson County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Jul 28, 2003, 6:49 PM CDT for Cheatham County, Montgomery County, Robertson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 41 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: Jul 28, 2003, 6:49 PM CDT (23:49 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 2003, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Cheatham County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Robertson County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 56 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: 1388 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 903 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KOHX 282349
TORBNA
TNC021-125-147-290030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
643 PM CDT MON JUL 28 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN CHEATHAM COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF ASHLAND CITY
  EASTERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  SOUTHWESTERN ROBERTSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 730 PM CDT

* AT 605 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUES TO
  INDICATE A TORNADO IN EASTERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH.
  
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR 
  FREDONIA AT 655 PM CDT
  HENRIETTA AT 700 PM CDT
  THOMASVILLE AT 700 PM CDT
  
TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. MOVE TO A BASEMENT...AN
INTERIOR ROOM OR HALLWAY...ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.

LAT...LON 3653 8729 3621 8717 3622 8691 3654 8696

$$
BOYD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 28, 1:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Robertson	45 min
Jul 28, 2:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Clay, Pickett	37 min
Jul 28, 3:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Smith	28 min
Jul 28, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Jackson	26 min
Jul 28, 4:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Williamson	25 min
Jul 28, 4:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford	51 min
Jul 28, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Warren	45 min
Jul 28, 4:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Williamson	2 hr
Jul 28, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Lawrence	43 min
Jul 28, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford	33 min
Jul 28, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Montgomery, Robertson, Stewart	87 min
Jul 28, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Coffee	29 min
Jul 28, 5:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Coffee	2 hr
Jul 28, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lincoln	40 min
Jul 28, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Franklin	50 min
Jul 28, 6:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Montgomery, Robertson	35 min

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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.