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Tornado Warning 103, NWS Nashville, TN

July 28, 2003Sumner County, Wilson County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Jul 28, 2003, 8:03 PM CDT for Sumner County, Wilson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 57 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, 8:03 PM CDT (01:03 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 2003, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Sumner County, TN, Wilson County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 11 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:05 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 nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 22 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: 1451 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -78 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 854 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 137 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 6.1

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The text

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

375 
WFUS54 KOHX 290103
TORBNA
TNC165-189-290200-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN SUMNER COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF HENDERSONVILLE
  WILSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MT JULIET AND LEBANON

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 754 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER MILLERSVILLE...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHWES OF
  GALLATIN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  HENDERSONVILLE AT 805 PM CDT
  MT JULIET AT 815 PM CDT
  LEBANON AT 825 PM CDT

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BELINDA CITY...GREEN HILL...
  AND WATERTOWN

TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. MOVE TO A 
BASEMENT...AN INTERIOR ROOM OR HALLWAY...ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.

LAT...LON 3651 8658 3635 8674 3595 8629 3610 8606

$$
BOYD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 28, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton, Cheatham, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery and 2 more	52 min
Jul 28, 7:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson	56 min
Jul 28, 7:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Sumner	59 min
Jul 28, 7:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Williamson	40 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.