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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Nashville, TN

March 19, 2003Putnam County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Mar 19, 2003, 1:04 PM CST for Putnam County, Tennessee. It was in force for 26 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: Mar 19, 2003, 1:04 PM CST (19:04 UTC)
Expired: Mar 19, 2003, 1:30 PM CST
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Putnam County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:08 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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 19, 11:30 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 104 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: 649 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 231 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 191904
TORBNA
TNC141-191930-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
101 PM CST WED MAR 19 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN PUTNAM COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
 
* UNTIL 130 PM CST

* AT 1258 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER SPARTA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MONTEREY AT 125 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 3595 8564 3582 8548 3611 8514 3623 8534

$$

END/ORCHANIAN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 19, 7:21 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Bedford, Marshall	24 min
Mar 19, 7:43 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Bedford, Rutherford	47 min
Mar 19, 8:15 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Lincoln	45 min
Mar 19, 8:25 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wilson	35 min
Mar 19, 9:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cannon, Rutherford, Wilson	30 min
Mar 19, 9:14 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Bedford, Cannon, Coffee	31 min
Mar 19, 9:17 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Clay, Jackson, Macon, Smith	43 min
Mar 19, 9:24 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Lincoln, Moore	51 min
Mar 19, 10:17 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cannon, DeKalb	43 min
Mar 19, 10:24 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Cannon, DeKalb, Warren	36 min
Mar 19, 10:46 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Coffee, Warren	44 min
Mar 19, 10:58 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	DeKalb, Putnam	47 min
Mar 19, 11:14 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Cannon, Clay, Coffee, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson and 6 more	3 hr
Mar 19, 11:17 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Overton, Putnam	43 min
Mar 19, 11:28 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Coffee, Franklin, Warren	47 min
Mar 19, 11:43 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Warren, White	32 min
Mar 19, 11:50 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Overton, Pickett	25 min
Mar 19, 11:58 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Putnam	17 min
Mar 19, 12:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Warren, White	44 min
Mar 19, 12:16 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Overton	29 min
Mar 19, 12:33 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Warren, White	27 min
Mar 19, 12:46 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Van Buren	14 min
Mar 19, 12:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Fentress, Overton, Pickett	36 min
Mar 19, 1:01 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	White	14 min
Mar 19, 1:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Van Buren, Warren, White	51 min
Mar 19, 1:29 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Fentress, Overton, Pickett, Putnam	31 min
Mar 19, 2:00 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Fentress	25 min
Mar 19, 2:12 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Warren, White	2 hr
Mar 19, 2:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Overton, Putnam	47 min
Mar 19, 2:16 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Fentress, Pickett	24 min
Mar 19, 2:41 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Fentress, Overton	29 min
Mar 19, 3:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Fentress, Pickett	39 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.