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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Nashville, TN

May 2, 2003Giles County, Lincoln County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at May 2, 2003, 5:08 PM CDT for Giles County, Lincoln County, Tennessee. It was in force for 37 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: May 2, 2003, 5:08 PM CDT (22:08 UTC)
Expired: May 2, 2003, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Giles County, TN, Lincoln County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:07 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
May 2, 1:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 103 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: 1266 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KOHX 022208
TORBNA
TNC055-103-022245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
506 PM CDT FRI MAY 2 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL GILES COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  LINCOLN COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF FAYETTEVILLE

* UNTIL 545 PM CDT

* AT 456 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO NEAR BRICK CHURCH IN GILES COUNTY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FAYETTEVILLE AT 545 PM CDT

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 3540 8692 3525 8705 3491 8657 3510 8638

$$

JLM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 2, 7:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Stewart	18 min
May 2, 7:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton, Houston, Humphreys, Stewart	46 min
May 2, 8:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Dickson, Montgomery	30 min
May 2, 8:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson	32 min
May 2, 9:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Marshall	31 min
May 2, 10:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Coffee	29 min
May 2, 1:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Franklin	30 min
May 2, 2:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wayne	29 min
May 2, 2:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Franklin	11 min
May 2, 2:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence, Wayne	42 min
May 2, 2:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Lincoln, Marshall	38 min
May 2, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson, Humphreys	20 hr
May 2, 3:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson, Humphreys	49 min
May 2, 3:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman, Humphreys	55 min
May 2, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Lincoln, Marshall	31 min
May 2, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Marshall	47 min
May 2, 3:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lincoln	26 min
May 2, 3:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman, Maury	56 min
May 2, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Coffee	33 min
May 2, 4:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman, Maury	46 min
May 2, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Lincoln	30 min
May 2, 5:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Marshall	41 min
May 2, 5:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles	34 min
May 2, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Marshall	48 min
May 2, 5:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lincoln	27 min
May 2, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Lawrence	32 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.